Tuesday June 26, 2007 Apologizing
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Linda's Proactive Airline Apologies blog post reminded me of an old John Cleese story. I don't think I've mentioned it before. Apologies if I have. Chalk it up to senility. |
Anyhoo, this was about the time that Breakfast TV was starting in England. I don't know the exact date. I'd guess late 70's, early 80's. John was one of the guests on the morning show that day and as it was at such an early hour, he was wearing his pajamas.
As you know, John Cleese is famous for Fawlty Towers (amongst many other things). He was asked if he's ever stayed in a hotel like that. He said yes, and mentioned the Randolph Hotel in Oxford. When he was staying there, he was woken up at a ridiculously early hour by one of the hotel staff who told him that this was his early-morning wakeup call. "But I didn't ask for a wakeup call!" says Cleese. The hotel person apologizes and hangs up. Five minutes later and John is just on the verge of getting back to sleep when the phone goes again. This time it's the hotel manager apologizing profusely for the inappropriate alarm call.
When my wife and I were first married in 1996, I took her to England to meet my Dad and my step-mom, and, as it was her first time in England, one of the places she wanted to visit was Oxford. We stayed at the Randolph. It really is a weird hotel. The restaurant closed very early. The rooms were "quaint", including windows you could open (and jump out if you so desired). The only good things it had going for it is that it's in the middle of the town and that it's directly opposite the Ashmolean Museum.
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