Hotel Stories

As the wind carved its way swiftly across the sand and rocks of the Wirral side of the River Dee, seagulls tried desperately to maintain some sort of stability as they circled in the air, and a few dogs that were out still played and jumped around as though not affected. One of those dogs, ‘Baron’, a three-year-old border-collie sniffed around the rocks and pebbles for nothing in particular, its owner near the shoreline,...

I was in a hotel in New York recently. Nothing fantastic but clean and comfortable.I had a good nights sleep, and when I got up, I couldn't get the shower to work.It was one of those with two taps, hot and cold but the hot one wouldn't turn.I phoned down to the front desk and when the nice man answered I told him the tap was stuck.“Tap?” he said. “Yes, I replied, “The hot tap won't turn.”“Oh,” he suddenly exclaimed. “Fauc...

“Do you know what this is my boy?” “No, I don’t,” I said. “That’s proof that you are a simpleton.” My boss Mr. Muwi meant no harm by the statement. Despite the meanness, I smiled as I looked at his newest piece of jewelry. It was a beautiful copper bracelet with African art engraved on it. “This is a gift for a real woman, not a simple bitch,” he said. Many people would have found him to be either vulgar or arrogant, but...