RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29841, 6 June 1962, Page 21

RANDOM REMINDER

THOSE LAUNDRY BLUES

There have been some encouraging reports lately about the success and prospects of the tourist trade in New Zealand. Down in the southern lakes area, there is a hotel manager who feels he has done his bit towards cementing friendly relations with our best tourist source, the United States. . An American and his wife stayed at the hotel, and they found the service lacked all those

amenities available in the better New York hostelries. And they said so. Often. Then after some wet days they wanted some washing done. There was no-one available for the job. The receptionist took it on herself to find someone to do the work. The washing was duly done. Then the American complained to the manager about the quality of the laundry. This was wrong, and that was wrong, and something

was too damp, and something else was too dry. But when he was done with his depressing recital, he showed typical American warmth by explaining that now he had spoken his mind, how about letting him buy the manager a drink. The manager, who had listened to the dirge dutifully. insisted that he should buy the drink. “After all,” he said, “it was my wife who did the washing.”