If you reguarly carry two phones and check your email multiple times a day, you may be a newbie innkeeper...
That would bwe me....
Great Job KK...I Love it..
You Might Be an Innkeeper If
Submitted by YellowSocks on Tue, 06/17/2008 - 12:47pm
You might be an innkeeper if...
If you have a 2.2 million dollar home and you live in ten thousand dollars of it...
If it's been six months since you opened a new roll of toilet paper for yourself... and you're happy about that...
If you tend to refer to folks by their room names instead of their given names...
If you make eggs every day, but you eat corn flakes...
If you've ever contemplated a piece of bacon on somebody else's plate, wondering if it's been touched...
If your partner can Name That Story as soon as you start it...
If people usually ask what you used to do... before you retired...
If all your free time falls between two and three...
If you've ever found a pair of underwear in bed and it never even crossed your mind that they might be yours...
If finding someone else's lace panties isn't grounds for divorce...
If you're regularly asked to predict the weather three months in advance (and you don't have a fortune-teller sign out front)...
Jacuzzi rooms? If your water usage exceeds that of a small nation...
If you have an oversized whirlpool bathtub with a sign next to it that says, "Please reuse your towel to conserve water."
If your husband brings home flowers once a week, and they're not for you...
If your best washcloths have been used as makeup removers, carwash cloths, shoe shiners, and to clean the dog's feet...
If your house is pristine, but your bedroom is stacked to the ceiling... "Don't put that there! Put it in my room."
If you've ever washed chocolate out of your pillow cases...
If stain removal is actually interesting...
If there are written instructions anywhere in your rooms (and you don't have teenagers)...
If you consistently vacuum your way backwards out of a room...
If people pay you to put your picture in their scrapbooks...
If, when you're out for dinner, you order dessert and then find yourself figuring out how to duplicate it for a breakfast course...
If you have named or numbered your bedrooms...
If your house has a theme...
If pictures of your bedrooms are displayed on the internet (and there is no "X" in your domain name)...
If the recycling guy thinks you have an orange juice addiction...
If there are five copies of every magazine in your house...
If you have ever given instructions to anyone about how to use any plumbing fixture in your bathroom... and all your kids are potty-trained...
If you find yourself explaining, once a week, what a grit is, you might be a Southern innkeeper...or cracklin bread or hushpuppies...
If you've ever had to give directions and you're used to 'talking them in' and you're not an air traffic controller...
If you have a backup bedspread...
If you have seven coffee pots...
If people pay to sleep in your bed and your profession isn't THAT old...
If you can make three varieties of stuffed French toast in your sleep with one hand tied behind your back...
If your new dryer is more exciting than your new car...
If you have a clue what a mangle is, and there is one in your bedroom...
If your favorite fantasies are about adequate counter space and a laundry service...
If "No Vacancy" can prevent your mother-in-law from visiting...
If people spend their honeymoons with you... you'd BETTER be an innkeeper...
And finally, things you don't want to hear:
I didn't know it would get stuck.
Was it expensive?
Is that price for a week?
Do you take rottweilers? How many?
I think that was already broken.
If you own five kinds of glue and are upset when the wood glue goes missing...
If your best silverware gets used daily...
If you spend your day ironing napkins, polishing silverware, and dusting the accordian in the guest room...
If you reguarly carry two phones and check your email multiple times a day, you may be a newbie innkeeper...
If you've ever spent more than $500 on towels at one store (in one trip)...
If your own bedroom has a lock and key...
If your front yard has a big sign in it...
If your electric bill is big enough for a small village (and aircraft could navigate using your house at night)...
If your neighbors use your house to give directions to their house (look for the one that's all lit up...)
If your neighbor taking up two parking spots in front of your house can make your blood boil...
If your children refer to anyone visiting your home as "the people..."
If you have more than two set of dishes that you use regularly...
If you never watch TV but own multiple flat screen TV's and pay to have multiple cable boxes (and know the Weather Chanel's number by heart)...
If total stranger has ever brought your chidren presents and you were happy instead of alarmed...
If you own a whirlpool tub (or more than one!) that you've never tried out (because you just don't have time, and you'd just have to sanitize it again)...
If you've ever considered upgrading a guest so that you don't have to flip the room on the third floor...
If you've ever missed a meeting because you were just sitting at home waiting...
If your dining room (or hallway) contains a microwave...
Most of these are from JBJ... but I added a bunch the last time it was posted, especially about starting up and being a newbie (the $500 in towels really happened). The newbie... oh, yeah, that's me in a big way. Took a reservation today while waiting for the doctor to come in to the examining room. (Just a check up, all is well, dh is going to be plenty jealous when he here's my blood work results!) She said one of the other B&B's wasn't interested and the other never returned any of her calls.
=) Kk.