Grab a coffee...I am wordy on this one!
For innkeepers the day-in and day-out becomes drudgery at times. When we have someone who doesn't fit inside our guest box, we get a little perturbed. We have a system, and when someone rocks the system, we lose patience.
Having said that, we often forget why we opened our inn in the first place, it really wasn't about cooking and cleaning and taking reservations, and sharing our town/location with people. We wanted to be more than a place to stay.
I was invited to go to a show put on by our guest last night. The wind chill was freezing, it was not a pleasant night to go out, and it has been a difficult week. And then I thought about what I wrote above. Stay in because it is inconvenient, or go to this performance and have something to add to the kitty to remember from our stint as innkeepers?
So even though we had other things to do, one kid had homework stacked to the ceiling, we went. Even though it wasn't all of our cup of tea, it was very very nice. When the other two performers arrived after the show here, the three of them were playing music til all hours, and I fell asleep listening to it. (We made the right decision I thought).
The guests were booked in at the stinky chain hotel, and I ended up getting them here after matching the $80 rate. Yeah, Eighty bucks! But that was what those who hired them were paying for their accommodation over there. Meanwhile due to the cold, it took an army to bring all their instruments into the house.
They had to leave early so I was unable to impress a beautiful breakfast upon them this morning. But one will be back later today. So all in all, I need to remember this, even though most of the time people use us as a hotel room, there are those times when we are more than a place to stay.
For innkeepers the day-in and day-out becomes drudgery at times. When we have someone who doesn't fit inside our guest box, we get a little perturbed. We have a system, and when someone rocks the system, we lose patience.
Having said that, we often forget why we opened our inn in the first place, it really wasn't about cooking and cleaning and taking reservations, and sharing our town/location with people. We wanted to be more than a place to stay.
I was invited to go to a show put on by our guest last night. The wind chill was freezing, it was not a pleasant night to go out, and it has been a difficult week. And then I thought about what I wrote above. Stay in because it is inconvenient, or go to this performance and have something to add to the kitty to remember from our stint as innkeepers?
So even though we had other things to do, one kid had homework stacked to the ceiling, we went. Even though it wasn't all of our cup of tea, it was very very nice. When the other two performers arrived after the show here, the three of them were playing music til all hours, and I fell asleep listening to it. (We made the right decision I thought).
The guests were booked in at the stinky chain hotel, and I ended up getting them here after matching the $80 rate. Yeah, Eighty bucks! But that was what those who hired them were paying for their accommodation over there. Meanwhile due to the cold, it took an army to bring all their instruments into the house.
They had to leave early so I was unable to impress a beautiful breakfast upon them this morning. But one will be back later today. So all in all, I need to remember this, even though most of the time people use us as a hotel room, there are those times when we are more than a place to stay.