this should make for a good discussion. this happened to us about 2 weks after we took over our B&B. i can't believe i forgot about this. DH just said "remember when..." so i told him i was going to throw it on here..
Once upon a time,(a couple of weeks after we took over our B&B), the man who is the head of our C of C stopped by to introduce himself(try to get us to sign up) and invite us to the annual Chamber dinner that was taking place that coming weekend. we said we would try to attend. fast forward to day before the dinner...we receive a call for a 1 night reservation from a man who works for our state tourism assoc. the reservation is for himself. in conversation i mention to him that we are the new owners. he says how great that is & he'd be happy to discuss with us what the assoc. can do for us, blah blah blah... he says he will be arriving around 5pm the next nigh (night of the dinner)
next day (day of dinner) 5pm rolls around, no man 6 pm rolls around,still no man.since he told me he was not too familiar with the area i decided to call the cell # he gave me(at 6:30pm) to see if he was lost & needing directions. He answers & tells me that at that exact moment he was en route back home and that his secretary as supposed to have called & cancelled. oh, ok....
fast forward a couple of days later...man from C of C stops by the Inn again to mention that he missed seeing us at the dinner. ( we ended up not going because we were waiting for our guest to show(the man) and when i called him the dinner had already started & we did not want to walk in in the middle of it, it hadstarted at 6pm)
the man from chamber tells us what a good speaker they had, we asked who, he said "oh he was Mr. so & so from ____ tourism assoc. Dh & i never let on anything, we just said oh too bad we missed it. the speaker was the man who was supposed to stay with us and lied to me when i called him. he said he was on his way home when in fact he was at the dinner. reason i know this is because C Of C man said he started speaking at about 6:30, (the same time i called)
so i decided to write a letter to our state topurism assoc to let the know what had happened. the big chief gave me a phone call, told me that he was very sorry & also curious about the incident so he would be questioning MR. so & so the next day he was at work. i told him i was not trying to start a commotion i just felt it was a poor first impression we received of the assoc. he agreed. he called me back the next day after speaking to mr so & so. he said mr so & so told him he had decided not to stay at our inn because he had had an issue with the previous owners & that he did not know there were new owners. i told him mr so & so was informed by myself that we were new owners. Mr so & so lied! big cheif tells us he is sorry for the incident & will mail us a check to cover the costr of that nights reservation. i had not initially requested or expected any $$ but i sure as heck was not going to turn it down.
fast forward about 6 months....DH & i decide to attend one of our states restraunt/hotel lodging assoc/food shows. Low & behold, who do we run into!? Mr so & so representing the ____tourism assoc. we were at the table for a moment and happened to notice his name tag,he noticed out too (i assume,anyway) since he walked straight away from the table. we pretended to read brochures for a moment to see if he came back, he did not. we walked away down the aisle, i kept watching from the corner of my eye, and he returned immediately to the table when we were enough steps away. we feel he walked away because he recognized outr tags. the tags say your name & your business name.
so sorry this is so long but i can't believe i forgot about this incident. this incident happened about 1 1/2 years ago.needless to say we NEVER joined the assoc.
i'm really curious what everyone's reactions are to this incident.
Once upon a time,(a couple of weeks after we took over our B&B), the man who is the head of our C of C stopped by to introduce himself(try to get us to sign up) and invite us to the annual Chamber dinner that was taking place that coming weekend. we said we would try to attend. fast forward to day before the dinner...we receive a call for a 1 night reservation from a man who works for our state tourism assoc. the reservation is for himself. in conversation i mention to him that we are the new owners. he says how great that is & he'd be happy to discuss with us what the assoc. can do for us, blah blah blah... he says he will be arriving around 5pm the next nigh (night of the dinner)
next day (day of dinner) 5pm rolls around, no man 6 pm rolls around,still no man.since he told me he was not too familiar with the area i decided to call the cell # he gave me(at 6:30pm) to see if he was lost & needing directions. He answers & tells me that at that exact moment he was en route back home and that his secretary as supposed to have called & cancelled. oh, ok....
fast forward a couple of days later...man from C of C stops by the Inn again to mention that he missed seeing us at the dinner. ( we ended up not going because we were waiting for our guest to show(the man) and when i called him the dinner had already started & we did not want to walk in in the middle of it, it hadstarted at 6pm)
the man from chamber tells us what a good speaker they had, we asked who, he said "oh he was Mr. so & so from ____ tourism assoc. Dh & i never let on anything, we just said oh too bad we missed it. the speaker was the man who was supposed to stay with us and lied to me when i called him. he said he was on his way home when in fact he was at the dinner. reason i know this is because C Of C man said he started speaking at about 6:30, (the same time i called)
so i decided to write a letter to our state topurism assoc to let the know what had happened. the big chief gave me a phone call, told me that he was very sorry & also curious about the incident so he would be questioning MR. so & so the next day he was at work. i told him i was not trying to start a commotion i just felt it was a poor first impression we received of the assoc. he agreed. he called me back the next day after speaking to mr so & so. he said mr so & so told him he had decided not to stay at our inn because he had had an issue with the previous owners & that he did not know there were new owners. i told him mr so & so was informed by myself that we were new owners. Mr so & so lied! big cheif tells us he is sorry for the incident & will mail us a check to cover the costr of that nights reservation. i had not initially requested or expected any $$ but i sure as heck was not going to turn it down.
fast forward about 6 months....DH & i decide to attend one of our states restraunt/hotel lodging assoc/food shows. Low & behold, who do we run into!? Mr so & so representing the ____tourism assoc. we were at the table for a moment and happened to notice his name tag,he noticed out too (i assume,anyway) since he walked straight away from the table. we pretended to read brochures for a moment to see if he came back, he did not. we walked away down the aisle, i kept watching from the corner of my eye, and he returned immediately to the table when we were enough steps away. we feel he walked away because he recognized outr tags. the tags say your name & your business name.
so sorry this is so long but i can't believe i forgot about this incident. this incident happened about 1 1/2 years ago.needless to say we NEVER joined the assoc.
i'm really curious what everyone's reactions are to this incident.