I'm always curious to know the real story behind bad hotel reviews. Specifically, ones where 99% of the reviews are glowingly positive, but one dude says it's the filthiest, most unfriendly hotel they've ever seen in their extensive world travels. I mean, at that point, I can't help but think, "Okay, what did you do to piss the hotel off?" Either that or they just got really unlucky and stayed the one day someone spaced out and forgot to clean a room.

In a similar vein, I have been looking for a couple of things on eBay. I always look at the feedback as a gauge of whether I want to buy from that person. I am always amused when someone has 300 positive feedbacks and one nasty negative one. More often than not, that particular buyer has only purchased one or two items on eBay. Idiot.

I worked in a hotel for awhile. Some people get totally pissed at the slightest thing. The ice machine is not on their floor, they did not get a free upgrade, the hooker did not work out (I did not say it was a nice hotel).

I'd hazard a guess that the "reviewer" was pissed at some other issue and lashed out.

Yeah, I figure. And I figure some, if not most, of them are making stuff up. It's just so bizarre to see 20 "Clean, comfortable, and frinedly" reviews followed by, "Filthy, rude, smelly!"

[oh, and sorry for the edit of your post. I noticed a typo in mine and edited the quote in yours instead of my original post]

I was once that one loan voice. I honestly did wonder what crack the other guests had been smoking (and it honestly was really terrible; I am about the most laid back least complaining traveler you can imagine).

I can't believe I almost forgot this "moment" from Chicago...

(Cut/Paste from an IM)

So, the show I went to is called the NRA show - which stands for National Restaurant Association.

Naturally, one can assume what most people think when they see NRA on my badge.

So, I was riding the elevator up after a particularly tiring day at the show. Another young lady was taking the same ride up and asked "Oh, you're working a gun show?"

To which I respond, and I'm shocked that I forgot until just now, "The only gun show I'm working is this..." and I raised my right arm in that muscle pose.

We laughed hard, she got off the elevator, and I went to my floor.

<insert innocent whistling here>

dork.

Tyra Banks,

You are not Oprah.
Give it up.

Signed,
Me

Thunderstorms rule!

Yes, but that doesn't stop the gazillian tweenies who joined MC to post in the VMK forum from cluttering up the rest of the forums with inane threads.