Hallo!
Eine kleine Geschichte über Seife in Hotels. Ich habe sie auf Französisch zugeschickt bekommen, Google findet sie auf Englisch und auf Französisch, nur auf Deutsch habe ich sie leider noch nicht gefunden…
Ich habe mal die englische Variante hier reingepackt, da es ja in einem Londoner Hotel spielt, die frz. Variante könnt ihr hier nachlesen:
http://v.tomeno.free.fr/blagues/savonnettes.htm
Vielleicht findet ja noch jemand andere Sprachen:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=de&q=hotel+berman+ka…
Gruß,
Stefan 
Below is some correspondence which actually occurred between a
London hotel’s staff and one of its guests. The London hotel
involved submitted this to the Sunday Times. No name was
mentioned.
Dear Maid,
Please do not leave any more of those little bars of soap in
my bathroom since I have brought my own bath-sized Dial.
Please remove the six unopened little bars from the shelf
under the medicine chest and another three in the shower
soap dish. They are in my way.
Thank You, S. Berman
Dear Room 238,
I am not your regular maid. She will be back tomorrow,
Thursday, from her day off. I took the 3 hotel soaps out of the
shower soap dish as you requested. The 6 bars on your shelf
I took out of your way and put on top of your Kleenex
dispenser in case you should change your mind. This leaves
only the 3 bars I left today which my instructions from the
management is to leave 3 soaps daily. I hope this is
satisfactory.
Kathy, Relief Maid
Dear Maid – I hope you are my regular maid.
Apparently Kathy did not tell you about my note to her
concerning the little bars of soap. When I got back to my
room this evening I found you had added 3 little Camays to
the shelf under my medicine cabinet. I am going to be here in
the hotel for two weeks and have brought my own bath-size
Dial so I won’t need those 6 little Camays which are on the
shelf. They are in my way when shaving, brushing teeth, etc.
Please remove them.
S. Berman
Dear Mr. Berman,
My day off was last Wed. so the relief maid left 3 hotel soaps
which we are instructed by the management. I took the 6
soaps which were in your way on the shelf and put them in
the soap dish where your Dial was. I put the Dial in the
medicine cabinet for your convenience. I didn’t remove the 3
complimentary soaps which are always placed inside the
medicine cabinet for all new check-ins and which you did not
object to when you checked in last Monday. Please let me
know if I can of further assistance.
Your regular maid,
Dotty
Dear Mr. Berman,
The assistant manager, Mr. Kensedder, informed me this
A.M. that you called him last evening and said you were
unhappy with your maid service. I have assigned a new girl
to your room. I hope you will accept my apologies for any
past inconvenience. If you have any future complaints please
contact me so I can give it my personal attention. Call
extension 1108 between 8AM and 5PM. Thank you.
Elaine Carmen
Housekeeper
Dear Miss Carmen,
It is impossible to contact you by phone since I leave the
hotel for business at 745 AM and don’t get back before 530
or 6PM. That’s the reason I called Mr. Kensedder last night.
You were already off duty. I only asked Mr. Kensedder if he
could do anything about those little bars of soap. The new
maid you assigned me must have thought I was a new
check-in today, since she left another 3 bars of hotel soap in
my medicine cabinet along with her regular delivery of 3 bars
on the bath-room shelf. In just 5 days here I have
accumulated 24 little bars of soap. Why are you doing this to
me?
S. Berman
Dear Mr. Berman,
Your maid, Kathy, has been instructed to stop delivering
soap to your room and remove the extra soaps. If I can be of
further assistance, please call extension 1108 between 8AM
and 5PM. Thank you,
Elaine Carmen,
Housekeeper
Dear Mr. Kensedder,
My bath-size Dial is missing. Every bar of soap was taken
from my room including my own bath-size Dial. I came in late
last night and had to call the bellhop to bring me 4 little
Cashmere Bouquets.
S. Berman
Dear Mr. Berman,
I have informed our housekeeper, Elaine Carmen, of your
soap problem. I cannot understand why there was no soap in
your room since our maids are instructed to leave 3 bars of
soap each time they service a room. The situation will be
rectified immediately. Please accept my apologies for the
inconvenience.
Martin L. Kensedder
Assistant Manager
Dear Mrs. Carmen,
Who the hell left 54 little bars of Camay in my room? I came
in last night and found 54 little bars of soap. I don’t want 54
little bars of Camay. I want my one damn bar of bath-size
Dial. Do you realize I have 54 bars of soap in here. All I want
is my bath size Dial. Please give me back my bath-size Dial.
S. Berman
Dear Mr. Berman,
You complained of too much soap in your room so I had
them removed. Then you complained to Mr. Kensedder that
all your soap was missing so I personally returned them. The
24 Camays which had been taken and the 3 Camays you
are supposed to receive daily (sic). I don’t know anything
about the 4 Cashmere Bouquets. Obviously your maid,
Kathy, did not know I had returned your soaps so she also
brought 24 Camays plus the 3 daily Camays. I don’t know
where you got the idea this hotel issues bath-size Dial. I was
able to locate some bath-size Ivory which I left in your room.
Elaine Carmen
Housekeeper
Dear Mrs. Carmen,
Just a short note to bring you up-to-date on my latest soap
inventory. As of today I possess:
- On shelf under medicine cabinet - 18 Camay in 4 stacks of
4 and 1 stack of 2. - On Kleenex dispenser - 11 Camay in 2 stacks of 4 and 1
stack of 3. - On bedroom dresser - 1 stack of 3 Cashmere Bouquet, 1
stack of 4 hotel-size Ivory, and 8 Camay in 2 stacks of 4. - Inside medicine cabinet - 14 Camay in 3 stacks of 4 and 1
stack of 2. - In shower soap dish - 6 Camay, very moist.
- On northeast corner of tub - 1 Cashmere Bouquet, slightly
used. - On northwest corner of tub - 6 Camays in 2 stacks of 3.
Please ask Kathy when she services my room to make sure
the stacks are neatly piled and dusted. Also, please advise
her that stacks of more than 4 have a tendency to tip. May I
suggest that my bedroom window sill is not in use and will
make an excellent spot for future soap deliveries. One more
item, I have purchased another bar of bath-sized Dial which I
am keeping in the hotel vault in order to avoid further
misunderstandings.
S. Berman
