In the late 1960's I was a traveler with Ford Motor Company. The company gave us $5.50 Food Allowance per day. As meager as such an allowance seems by today's standards I usually did alright.
Some of us tried to stretch the envelope by staying in motel rooms that cost $14 a night instead of our usual $9 per night accommodations but Ford caught on to what we were doing & put a stop to that wasteful spending, in no uncertain terms.
We were called into the District Office on a Monday morning before we headed out to our zones (very unusual meeting time) & told, in no uncertain terms, to get back where we belonged ($9 per night accommodations).
Those were the Ole Days. Today some upper crust hotels are charging $40 just for the use of Wi-Fi in their rooms.
Such hotels are the ones that used to cost $14 per night but now cost $200 per night. Thank heaven the $9 per night hotels are the still out there but now they cost $90 per night.
The strange thing is, if you spend $90 per night, the Wi-Fi is free but, if you spend $200 per night, the Wi-Fi costs $40 per night.
Guess this is what is called New Math... $90 is $90 but $200 is $240.
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On a related note (whatever that means), recently we stayed at a nice hotel & while checking in I asked the desk clerk if we received a free breakfast in the morning. The very nice young man (& he was very nice) looked me right in my cheap eyes & said, "No, sir. We are a full service hotel".
Would I kid u?
Smartfella
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1 comment:
Your story brought back old memories. When I was traveling, we too had a budget of $9 for a hotel room. This would get us into most Holiday Inns at the time. Then the rate went up to a staggering $12 per night and I thought my sales manager was going to have a stroke. We will BLOW our budget at $12 per night, etc, etc, etc. Ah the good old days!!
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