I was checking out of a hotel in France
where I was in the middle of arguing over whether they should charge me for the breakfast I had not had. Anyway, I was overruled and had to pay the 10euro, which sucked but as I turned to pick up my luggage I knocked (honestly) a 2 litre bottle of coke which had been on the counter to the floor.

The bottle hit the ground and virtually exploded, the top shot off, and coke drenched the front desk, 2 laptops, the switchboard/phone, 2 receptions staff's uniforms, the wall and happily formed a massive sticky pool on the floor.

Needless to say I made a swift exit but a nice bit of karma you hotel fuckheads. Ha.
( zulu eh?, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 14:02, 3 replies)

hahahaha
that would cheer me up all day. But the thing is, would you have still knocked it off if they would've given you the benefit of the doubt.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 14:08, closed)

It was honestly an accident
but I would have felt terrible if I had done it and they'd not charged me. It was bad enough as it was, other people in the foyer MUST have thought I did it on purpose.
( zulu eh?, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 14:15, closed)

I've lived in France for nearly 6 years now
And it never ceases to amaze me how so many French people work from the assumption that anyone they deal with will try to con them out of something. The other day I had to argue with a dinner lady in the staff canteen who insisted that I had taken a yoghurt the previous day without paying for it, as if I really had nothing better to do than nick a few cents worth of dairy products off my employer. But the possibility that she might be mistaken clearly had not crossed her mind.

I'm sure your hotel bill was already high enough that conning a free breakfast out of them would have made little difference.
(lolwhites, Wed 16 Feb 2011, 10:57, closed)