Lvl_9_Gazebo
11-05-2006, 11:45 PM
A little late to be posting this, I suppose, but what the hey. The Off Topic board has been bereft of dead lady updates lately.
On Halloween, a couple of friends of mine, Mike and Michelle, decided to celebrate their anniversary by staying here in our jacuzzi suite. They'd stayed here their wedding night a few years ago, and reported a television that switched itself on so many times that they finally unplugged it, at which point, unfazed, the television switched itself back on.
Being the practical people they are, and being used to the way things are around here, they then turned the TV around to face the wall and went to bed.
Anyway, they were here again this past Halloween, and the television was acting up again, to the point that my friend Michelle finally said, "Okay, we're watching Food Network whether you like it or not. We'll leave the TV on tomorrow and you can watch whatever you want then -- okay? Okay, good."
And that was that. The TV behaved itself for the rest of the night, although sometime around 2 AM, Michelle woke up and saw the dead lady standing at the foot of the bed.
"Hi," said Michelle, and went back to sleep.
Now tonight is the third and final night of a stay by two guests who checked in over the weekend. On the morning after their first night, they complained up here at the front desk because they could not get their television to stay off during the night, until they unplugged it.
Perhaps the dead lady sensed she was pushing her luck, because she didn't turn it on again after that. She did seem a bit miffed though because she turned off the phone in that room. The guests couldn't even dial the front desk, although after they complained in the morning, our handyman went down there only to find the phone working perfectly. You could dial the front desk. You could dial Aunt Bertha. You could dial for pizza, or you could dial the Japanese prime minister if you were so inclined.
Perhaps after asserting herself that way, the dead lady is content, because that guest hasn't had any more problems so far.
On Halloween, a couple of friends of mine, Mike and Michelle, decided to celebrate their anniversary by staying here in our jacuzzi suite. They'd stayed here their wedding night a few years ago, and reported a television that switched itself on so many times that they finally unplugged it, at which point, unfazed, the television switched itself back on.
Being the practical people they are, and being used to the way things are around here, they then turned the TV around to face the wall and went to bed.
Anyway, they were here again this past Halloween, and the television was acting up again, to the point that my friend Michelle finally said, "Okay, we're watching Food Network whether you like it or not. We'll leave the TV on tomorrow and you can watch whatever you want then -- okay? Okay, good."
And that was that. The TV behaved itself for the rest of the night, although sometime around 2 AM, Michelle woke up and saw the dead lady standing at the foot of the bed.
"Hi," said Michelle, and went back to sleep.
Now tonight is the third and final night of a stay by two guests who checked in over the weekend. On the morning after their first night, they complained up here at the front desk because they could not get their television to stay off during the night, until they unplugged it.
Perhaps the dead lady sensed she was pushing her luck, because she didn't turn it on again after that. She did seem a bit miffed though because she turned off the phone in that room. The guests couldn't even dial the front desk, although after they complained in the morning, our handyman went down there only to find the phone working perfectly. You could dial the front desk. You could dial Aunt Bertha. You could dial for pizza, or you could dial the Japanese prime minister if you were so inclined.
Perhaps after asserting herself that way, the dead lady is content, because that guest hasn't had any more problems so far.