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Morticia

Morticia

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Guest who isn't sure where she made her reservation. Pretty sure it was here. Well, yes, I do have you checking in today.
Has been asked 2x if there is anything she can't eat. Tells me when I ask a third time that she can't eat dairy, and all she wants is egg whites for breakfast. It sounds so easy until you look at our 4 burner stove that has every burner in use in the morning.
So, what's for breakfast? Blueberry cheese danish and eggs scrambled with cheese. For her one egg white we have to stop cooking everything else.
I tell her what's for breakfast and say I can make a simple fruit plate. Oh, no, she'll make do picking around the cheese in the danish.
However, my experience is these guests don't eat anyway.
 
Ok, I got one!
Couple checks in for two days. Wedding guests.
Her: Can you recommend a good place for breakfast?
DH: We serve breakfast here.
Her: Can you recommend a place with an ocean view?
DH: (pointing to the windows 10 feet away) We have an ocean view. (Recovering) Actually, there are no breakfast places in town with an ocean view.
Her: We want a GOOD restaurant.
DH: (losing patience a tad) We serve a very good breakfast!
Huh?????
Next morning, she rang the bell to hand me their dirty dishes saying, I didn't know what to do with these. I took them, told her there is a bin for them and told her it was sweet of her to bring them to me.
(to get to me and interrupt my breakfast, she had to pass by a plastic bin with a sign on it that say, "Dirty Dishes.")
That afternoon, she grabbed a straw hat from the front porch saying, I'll just borrow this. (The housekeeper saw it happen and didn't know what to do.)
The hat's owner looked all over for the hat she'd left on the porch while she got her things together to check out. She left without her hat. HUH?????
 
Do you send reminders? How many days in advance? Your name in the subject line?
 
TheBeachHouse said:
Ok, I got one!
Couple checks in for two days. Wedding guests.
Her: Can you recommend a good place for breakfast?
DH: We serve breakfast here.
Her: Can you recommend a place with an ocean view?
DH: (pointing to the windows 10 feet away) We have an ocean view. (Recovering) Actually, there are no breakfast places in town with an ocean view.
Her: We want a GOOD restaurant.
DH: (losing patience a tad) We serve a very good breakfast!
Huh?????
Next morning, she rang the bell to hand me their dirty dishes saying, I didn't know what to do with these. I took them, told her there is a bin for them and told her it was sweet of her to bring them to me.
(to get to me and interrupt my breakfast, she had to pass by a plastic bin with a sign on it that say, "Dirty Dishes.")
That afternoon, she grabbed a straw hat from the front porch saying, I'll just borrow this. (The housekeeper saw it happen and didn't know what to do.)
The hat's owner looked all over for the hat she'd left on the porch while she got her things together to check out. She left without her hat. HUH?????.
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Your ditz beats mine!
 
Generic said:
Do you send reminders? How many days in advance? Your name in the subject line?.
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Generic said:
Do you send reminders? How many days in advance? Your name in the subject line?
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Yes. Welcome email goes out 3 days before arrival. She said she didn't get any emails from us at all.
This morning, Gomez makes special breakfast for her and she keeps insisting she can pick out the dairy in scrambled eggs.
I ask if they would like sausage. Oh, no! No meat! Jam for the toast? Oh, no bread! Which is ok, lots of people don't want sausage or toast. No biggie.
Then the conversation turns to a famous lobster shack. Everyone is talking about it in the dining room. She says they missed it, but it was on their list of places to go.
I said they now serve the lobster roll with no bread, just on a plate of greens. (Lobster is meat, but maybe that didn't sink in.) Oh, no, she'd eat the bread there!
So, you'd eat a hunk of white bread, but not this lovely whole grain oat bread?
No matter what conversation was going on, she misunderstood what was being said and inserted herself right in the middle.
When they were leaving I left poor Gomez to deal with her, I couldn't take another minute.
 
Morticia said:
TheBeachHouse said:
Ok, I got one!
Couple checks in for two days. Wedding guests.
Her: Can you recommend a good place for breakfast?
DH: We serve breakfast here.
Her: Can you recommend a place with an ocean view?
DH: (pointing to the windows 10 feet away) We have an ocean view. (Recovering) Actually, there are no breakfast places in town with an ocean view.
Her: We want a GOOD restaurant.
DH: (losing patience a tad) We serve a very good breakfast!
Huh?????
Next morning, she rang the bell to hand me their dirty dishes saying, I didn't know what to do with these. I took them, told her there is a bin for them and told her it was sweet of her to bring them to me.
(to get to me and interrupt my breakfast, she had to pass by a plastic bin with a sign on it that say, "Dirty Dishes.")
That afternoon, she grabbed a straw hat from the front porch saying, I'll just borrow this. (The housekeeper saw it happen and didn't know what to do.)
The hat's owner looked all over for the hat she'd left on the porch while she got her things together to check out. She left without her hat. HUH?????.
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Your ditz beats mine!
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Not by much!
I don't eat dairy, bread or meet, but I sure do love a lobster roll on a buttery toasted bun!
 
Morticia said:
Generic said:
Do you send reminders? How many days in advance? Your name in the subject line?.
Click to expand...
Generic said:
Do you send reminders? How many days in advance? Your name in the subject line?
Click to expand...
Yes. Welcome email goes out 3 days before arrival. She said she didn't get any emails from us at all.
This morning, Gomez makes special breakfast for her and she keeps insisting she can pick out the dairy in scrambled eggs.
I ask if they would like sausage. Oh, no! No meat! Jam for the toast? Oh, no bread! Which is ok, lots of people don't want sausage or toast. No biggie.
Then the conversation turns to a famous lobster shack. Everyone is talking about it in the dining room. She says they missed it, but it was on their list of places to go.
I said they now serve the lobster roll with no bread, just on a plate of greens. (Lobster is meat, but maybe that didn't sink in.) Oh, no, she'd eat the bread there!
So, you'd eat a hunk of white bread, but not this lovely whole grain oat bread?
No matter what conversation was going on, she misunderstood what was being said and inserted herself right in the middle.
When they were leaving I left poor Gomez to deal with her, I couldn't take another minute.
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Once had a couple that kept on bringing up what around here is very far right-wing politics. (You understand what that means around here, very different from where you are.) and didn't seem understand why we kept on trying to change the subject... when everyone else was from here or Europe.
 
So, I brought out a lovely fresh fruit plate and set in down for them. One each. Said, so you don't have to worry about the dairy (and, as it turned out, the bread) and I got not thanks but a 'he likes all that stuff, and I didn't need something special.'
Geez Louise, you whined about the food issue enough! Eat the damn fruit!
 
I'm so sorry to hear about how guests seem to behave in tourist destinations. Here in fly over country my guests for the most part are so appreciative. This am I got a hug from an old boy whom I barely interacted with. (Breakfast conversation was going well without me)
Tonight all 4 rooms are returns and we sat around the table enjoying wine and cheese while I caught them up on the ongoing local news, new grand babies (theirs, not mine) and the state of the world.
One couple visits relatives who live here. The relatives are moving far away but they promised to return anyway. They are the ones who gave me Herkomer, the garden gnome. I'm sending them with recommendations about where to stay as they head east from here.
I do get some real doozies, but they are few and far between. By not having a "season " I can look forward to every day and every new guest.
 
TheBeachHouse said:
Morticia said:
TheBeachHouse said:
Ok, I got one!
Couple checks in for two days. Wedding guests.
Her: Can you recommend a good place for breakfast?
DH: We serve breakfast here.
Her: Can you recommend a place with an ocean view?
DH: (pointing to the windows 10 feet away) We have an ocean view. (Recovering) Actually, there are no breakfast places in town with an ocean view.
Her: We want a GOOD restaurant.
DH: (losing patience a tad) We serve a very good breakfast!
Huh?????
Next morning, she rang the bell to hand me their dirty dishes saying, I didn't know what to do with these. I took them, told her there is a bin for them and told her it was sweet of her to bring them to me.
(to get to me and interrupt my breakfast, she had to pass by a plastic bin with a sign on it that say, "Dirty Dishes.")
That afternoon, she grabbed a straw hat from the front porch saying, I'll just borrow this. (The housekeeper saw it happen and didn't know what to do.)
The hat's owner looked all over for the hat she'd left on the porch while she got her things together to check out. She left without her hat. HUH?????.
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Your ditz beats mine!
.
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Not by much!
I don't eat dairy, bread or meet, but I sure do love a lobster roll on a buttery toasted bun!
.
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That's like the gluten free diets that get forgotten as soon as we produce the home made freshly baked breakfast rolls.
 
TheBeachHouse said:
Morticia said:
TheBeachHouse said:
Ok, I got one!
Couple checks in for two days. Wedding guests.
Her: Can you recommend a good place for breakfast?
DH: We serve breakfast here.
Her: Can you recommend a place with an ocean view?
DH: (pointing to the windows 10 feet away) We have an ocean view. (Recovering) Actually, there are no breakfast places in town with an ocean view.
Her: We want a GOOD restaurant.
DH: (losing patience a tad) We serve a very good breakfast!
Huh?????
Next morning, she rang the bell to hand me their dirty dishes saying, I didn't know what to do with these. I took them, told her there is a bin for them and told her it was sweet of her to bring them to me.
(to get to me and interrupt my breakfast, she had to pass by a plastic bin with a sign on it that say, "Dirty Dishes.")
That afternoon, she grabbed a straw hat from the front porch saying, I'll just borrow this. (The housekeeper saw it happen and didn't know what to do.)
The hat's owner looked all over for the hat she'd left on the porch while she got her things together to check out. She left without her hat. HUH?????.
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Your ditz beats mine!
.
Click to expand...
Not by much!
I don't eat dairy, bread or meet, but I sure do love a lobster roll on a buttery toasted bun!
.
Click to expand...
TheBeachHouse said:
Not by much!
I don't eat dairy, bread or meet, but I sure do love a lobster roll on a buttery toasted bun!
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For the record, I know how to spell meat. LOL. There is no edit button available.
 
Highlands John said:
TheBeachHouse said:
Morticia said:
TheBeachHouse said:
Ok, I got one!
Couple checks in for two days. Wedding guests.
Her: Can you recommend a good place for breakfast?
DH: We serve breakfast here.
Her: Can you recommend a place with an ocean view?
DH: (pointing to the windows 10 feet away) We have an ocean view. (Recovering) Actually, there are no breakfast places in town with an ocean view.
Her: We want a GOOD restaurant.
DH: (losing patience a tad) We serve a very good breakfast!
Huh?????
Next morning, she rang the bell to hand me their dirty dishes saying, I didn't know what to do with these. I took them, told her there is a bin for them and told her it was sweet of her to bring them to me.
(to get to me and interrupt my breakfast, she had to pass by a plastic bin with a sign on it that say, "Dirty Dishes.")
That afternoon, she grabbed a straw hat from the front porch saying, I'll just borrow this. (The housekeeper saw it happen and didn't know what to do.)
The hat's owner looked all over for the hat she'd left on the porch while she got her things together to check out. She left without her hat. HUH?????.
Click to expand...
Your ditz beats mine!
.
Click to expand...
Not by much!
I don't eat dairy, bread or meet, but I sure do love a lobster roll on a buttery toasted bun!
.
Click to expand...
That's like the gluten free diets that get forgotten as soon as we produce the home made freshly baked breakfast rolls.
.
Click to expand...
Highlands John said:
That's like the gluten free diets that get forgotten as soon as we produce the home made freshly baked breakfast rolls.
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I had a guest ask me if we served anything GF for breakfast. I could hardly understand the question because it was said with a mouthful of chocolate chip cookie.
 
TheBeachHouse said:
TheBeachHouse said:
Morticia said:
TheBeachHouse said:
Ok, I got one!
Couple checks in for two days. Wedding guests.
Her: Can you recommend a good place for breakfast?
DH: We serve breakfast here.
Her: Can you recommend a place with an ocean view?
DH: (pointing to the windows 10 feet away) We have an ocean view. (Recovering) Actually, there are no breakfast places in town with an ocean view.
Her: We want a GOOD restaurant.
DH: (losing patience a tad) We serve a very good breakfast!
Huh?????
Next morning, she rang the bell to hand me their dirty dishes saying, I didn't know what to do with these. I took them, told her there is a bin for them and told her it was sweet of her to bring them to me.
(to get to me and interrupt my breakfast, she had to pass by a plastic bin with a sign on it that say, "Dirty Dishes.")
That afternoon, she grabbed a straw hat from the front porch saying, I'll just borrow this. (The housekeeper saw it happen and didn't know what to do.)
The hat's owner looked all over for the hat she'd left on the porch while she got her things together to check out. She left without her hat. HUH?????.
Click to expand...
Your ditz beats mine!
.
Click to expand...
Not by much!
I don't eat dairy, bread or meet, but I sure do love a lobster roll on a buttery toasted bun!
.
Click to expand...
TheBeachHouse said:
Not by much!
I don't eat dairy, bread or meet, but I sure do love a lobster roll on a buttery toasted bun!
Click to expand...
For the record, I know how to spell meat. LOL. There is no edit button available.
.
Click to expand...
TheBeachHouse said:
TheBeachHouse said:
Not by much!
I don't eat dairy, bread or meet, but I sure do love a lobster roll on a buttery toasted bun!
Click to expand...
For the record, I know how to spell meat. LOL. There is no edit button available.
Click to expand...
The edit button goes away when someone replies to your post.
 
Let me just say - if you are allergic to an ingredient that is ubiquitous, do not tell me your only allergy is down pillows. I'm not serving down pillows for breakfast, but darn tootin that ubiquitous ingredient is in your breakfast and I can't take it out now!
And I mean ubiquitous! Unless all you eat are meat and veggies.
 
Morticia said:
Let me just say - if you are allergic to an ingredient that is ubiquitous, do not tell me your only allergy is down pillows. I'm not serving down pillows for breakfast, but darn tootin that ubiquitous ingredient is in your breakfast and I can't take it out now!
And I mean ubiquitous! Unless all you eat are meat and veggies..
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Had a guest for 6 days. On day 4, she told us she can't eat dairy. we serve, "quiche of the day."
Next day, she got fried eggs. Just say something!
 
TheBeachHouse said:
Morticia said:
Let me just say - if you are allergic to an ingredient that is ubiquitous, do not tell me your only allergy is down pillows. I'm not serving down pillows for breakfast, but darn tootin that ubiquitous ingredient is in your breakfast and I can't take it out now!
And I mean ubiquitous! Unless all you eat are meat and veggies..
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Had a guest for 6 days. On day 4, she told us she can't eat dairy. we serve, "quiche of the day."
Next day, she got fried eggs. Just say something!
.
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TheBeachHouse said:
Had a guest for 6 days. On day 4, she told us she can't eat dairy. we serve, "quiche of the day."
Next day, she got fried eggs. Just say something!
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We got a delivery of fresh strawberries yesterday. I offered some to guests walking out the door. 'oh no, I'm very allergic to strawberries!' Sigh.
 
Morticia said:
TheBeachHouse said:
Morticia said:
Let me just say - if you are allergic to an ingredient that is ubiquitous, do not tell me your only allergy is down pillows. I'm not serving down pillows for breakfast, but darn tootin that ubiquitous ingredient is in your breakfast and I can't take it out now!
And I mean ubiquitous! Unless all you eat are meat and veggies..
Click to expand...
Had a guest for 6 days. On day 4, she told us she can't eat dairy. we serve, "quiche of the day."
Next day, she got fried eggs. Just say something!
.
Click to expand...
TheBeachHouse said:
Had a guest for 6 days. On day 4, she told us she can't eat dairy. we serve, "quiche of the day."
Next day, she got fried eggs. Just say something!
Click to expand...
We got a delivery of fresh strawberries yesterday. I offered some to guests walking out the door. 'oh no, I'm very allergic to strawberries!' Sigh.
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Haha. On Sunday, I made strawberry pancakes with homemade strawberry syrup. She would have been sol.
 
TheBeachHouse said:
Morticia said:
TheBeachHouse said:
Morticia said:
Let me just say - if you are allergic to an ingredient that is ubiquitous, do not tell me your only allergy is down pillows. I'm not serving down pillows for breakfast, but darn tootin that ubiquitous ingredient is in your breakfast and I can't take it out now!
And I mean ubiquitous! Unless all you eat are meat and veggies..
Click to expand...
Had a guest for 6 days. On day 4, she told us she can't eat dairy. we serve, "quiche of the day."
Next day, she got fried eggs. Just say something!
.
Click to expand...
TheBeachHouse said:
Had a guest for 6 days. On day 4, she told us she can't eat dairy. we serve, "quiche of the day."
Next day, she got fried eggs. Just say something!
Click to expand...
We got a delivery of fresh strawberries yesterday. I offered some to guests walking out the door. 'oh no, I'm very allergic to strawberries!' Sigh.
.
Click to expand...
Haha. On Sunday, I made strawberry pancakes with homemade strawberry syrup. She would have been sol.
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I have a friend who is allergic to dairy. Trying to eat vegan. At my party recently, I started to point out what foods were vegan. She said, "I can watch out for myself." I appreciated that.
I figure people with bad allergies will manage it themselves. But, at the same time, we do want to give good service, so knowing what to avoid can help us.
We have one guy who comes twice a summer and only eats bran cereal. So we buy bran cereal twice a summer. Not too difficult for us and (to paraphrase princess Leia), if bran cereal is all that he loves, that is what he should have.
 
I have been getting requests for the venison sausage lately. Getting better at making it. Asked the guests to critique. I think I have figured out the right proportions now - use real maple syrup and sage from my herb garden.
 
Ok so we have guest who checked in at the last minute.By phone call so we took her. She hasn't listened to any thing we have said. Is up all night walking back and forth in her room. Seems to be moving furniture . Requests buckets of ice. Leaves us lovely notes about not attending breakfast. This afternoon as I came back from the store, She was stand ing in the middle of our front yard chucking her dog shit on the neighbors lawn. I stopped the car and called her name numerous times to get her attention, then sternly said we do not do that here. I explaned there are bags and a trash can on the side of our house. Later as she sat on our porch as I scooped her poop, she apologized and told me not to worry dog poop is good for the lawn. Argh NO it is NOT!!!!!
 

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