Well I had two very tired and upset American ladies ring on the door bell the other day asking for a room for the night. They were in the first night of their holiday and even though they did not have much spare money, I decided to help them out and let them stay with a slight discount – They had had their car stolen in Windsor! After walking all over Windsor during the day they had returned to where they thought th is essential to remember where you parked it!ey had parked the car and it had GONE! They did the usual of walking around and up further floors in the car park, but were sure it had been stolen.
So I helped them contact the police and in due course they had a word with the police who came down and actually drove them around the town to look for the car! Amazing in itself – either it was a slow evening in Windsor or the customer care lessons they had been on were truly stupendous!
When I next saw them they still had the police man in tow and we tried to contact the car rental company to report the car stolen….. unfortunately they were closed but we had the necessary numbers for the following day.
Everyone departed for the evening, the police to continue to make enquiries and the 2 ladies to bed and me off for a well earned beer!
About an hour or so later the front door bell rang. As I opened the door there was the policeman again! I said in a surprised voice “Well, Hello….’ello, ‘ello!” Oh how I’ve always wanted to say that! Although poor old Mr Plod did not show any sign of amusement he asked me where the ladies were. They had found the car. It was on the GROUND floor of the car park! He went off to tell them and I went off to finish laughing into my beer!
So at least there was a happy ending to the story. Although I think they will remember next time where they parked their car, they really did give themselves a very stressful start to the holiday.
I was looking forward to seeing them the next morning….I was already with my many funny lines on parking cars and was preparing to take the maximum comedy benefit from this situation….but alas because they had already paid they made a very quiet exit and I missed them!
Oh well….If indeed the 2 ladies every get to read this….many thanks for the very amusing story I have now got! I hope you finished your holiday in a much better fashion than you started it!
