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So my husband and I just got back from a few days in wine country. We had booked a suite at a nice inn in a small town. We got there too early for check-in, so we decided to tour the area and go on a few tasting tours at the local wineries.
Mid-afternoon finally rolls around, and its still about half an hour before official check-in, but I'm frankly a little sauced at this point and would like to lie down. So hubby and I walk into the the hotel lobby and politely ask if an early check-in is possible.
I was wearing a pink straw cowboy hat. There's no need to go into details about how I came to be in possession of this hat, or why I was wearing it. I will add that, in my inebriated state, I had attached several wine corks from little strings along the brim. The point to remember is: This was an incredibly ridiculous-looking hat.
So the woman at the front desk said the room wasn't ready yet, and it would be about 15 minutes. We chatted for several minutes and gave her all of our check-in information. She mentioned the hat. Finally, hubby and I stepped out to grab coffee while we were waiting.
We were gone about 15 minutes.
We came back, and this woman had no recollection of us whatsoever. Hubby said something like "Hi, we're back." And her response was, "Okay...I'm sorry, do you have reservations?" We gave her our info again, chatted again about the wineries we'd been to....like it was all happening to her for the first time.
She wasn't rude, but the whole thing was so weird it was eerie. How can you completely forget someone in 15 minutes? Or, as my husband put it, "How can anyone forget seeing that monstrosity on your head for even one merciful second in their lives?"
Mid-afternoon finally rolls around, and its still about half an hour before official check-in, but I'm frankly a little sauced at this point and would like to lie down. So hubby and I walk into the the hotel lobby and politely ask if an early check-in is possible.
I was wearing a pink straw cowboy hat. There's no need to go into details about how I came to be in possession of this hat, or why I was wearing it. I will add that, in my inebriated state, I had attached several wine corks from little strings along the brim. The point to remember is: This was an incredibly ridiculous-looking hat.
So the woman at the front desk said the room wasn't ready yet, and it would be about 15 minutes. We chatted for several minutes and gave her all of our check-in information. She mentioned the hat. Finally, hubby and I stepped out to grab coffee while we were waiting.
We were gone about 15 minutes.
We came back, and this woman had no recollection of us whatsoever. Hubby said something like "Hi, we're back." And her response was, "Okay...I'm sorry, do you have reservations?" We gave her our info again, chatted again about the wineries we'd been to....like it was all happening to her for the first time.
She wasn't rude, but the whole thing was so weird it was eerie. How can you completely forget someone in 15 minutes? Or, as my husband put it, "How can anyone forget seeing that monstrosity on your head for even one merciful second in their lives?"
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