C6 -- Wednesday, February 4, 1981 - North Shore News

An old proverb goes something like this: “When

you're up to your ass in.

alligators it . serves little

purpose ‘to explain that your original:.intention was to drain the swamp.”

Most of us have 20-20 hindsight. Our foresight may be a bit faulty but bigawd we -can pick out flaws like a cat picks out fleas. Un-

“fortunately, all land on our

stead we had two sn don fans..How can they do this to us?

We got hit with a service charge on top of our meal

price. Do you think we should have tipped as well? My husband did and we've argued the fact ever since. Our reservations were

made in October but when we arrived the hotel had never heard of us. They arranged facilities down the road but it wasn't half as nice as the hotel we should have had.

Here are a few solutions. You probably won't like them.

If. -you rent through a

in travel agent, you might get ad lucky and ‘get a few bucks ’ back for “inconvenience”.

Otherwise, you coped with a cranky stove, a frosty fridge and a gringy apartment, just for experience. Bad luck.

Airlines will put you up in a nice hotel and pay for your meals if you should be delayed for an excessive amount of time. If your flat in Barbados went unused, they won't pay anything towards the rental.

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good luck and some bad... Isn't that discouraging? By the time [ve struggled through a mound of paper, bought a lot:of stamps and spent hours fighting, it boils

~ .]f-you rent privately, you . “haven't got a hope in hell of “any compensation. Sorry.

* checked out the price.of-the

would. And I’ve had some

off the ground. down to the realm of “ex-

FANS HEALTHY pemence . Air conditioning? You got Again, tough luck. lucky when you found those As for those idiots wao left

fans. It is a lot healthier to pome adequat use overhead fans than some medical “insurance erm

of the coolerator-type air sorry. It is a terrible thing to conditioning systems. _ have half of your life savings Remember “Legionnaire’s wiped out because you got Disease It was. tracked sick in another. country. down to the air conditioning

system growing ‘fungus. - Deliver me from air con- Aitioners

without

However, don't feel too

there’s no way Tm: going - throw more money down the | spout.

Your husband is dither too: — generous or too stupid. Take - - your choice.

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If the whole grap: arrives, there will be some that get shuffled around. I hope you made the best of a_ bad situation, had a nice holiday,

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