ark@rabbit.UUCP (02/02/84)
Several years ago, I spent a lovely weekend in the Horse and Hound Inn in Franconia NH. On the bathroom wall was a sign whose contents I can paraphrase this way: We are sorry to have to post this, but it is forced on us by recent sad experience. Before you arrive here, your room is thoroughly checked. We want to make sure our guests all enjoy the big fluffy towels, thick plastic coat hangers, and other amenities that they have come to expect. We make sure the proper number of each are in each room. After you leave, we count again. Please make sure that our things do not get mixed in with yours. Be assured that if you have left anything behind, we have your name, address, and license number on file so that we can return it to you. That is the most tactful posting of that type of warning I have ever seen. Apparently they needed to do it, too. One morning at about 4 AM, a person registered as a guest there quietly crept downstairs, cleaned out the cash register in the lobby, and disappeared. The innkeeper, a former private investigator, told me that he installed a burglar alarm shortly afterwards and has had no trouble of that sort since then. It's a shame people have to worry about this sort of thing...