Hilarious short stories. If you haven’t tried “Seven Hotel Stories” or any of the individual stories about Ms N and Tatiana, you have a treat in store.
“The Hotel Stories” in Cambridge
I had the honour and pleasure recently to go for a walk with friends on a sunny day near Cambridge. The landscape looked like this:
As we strolled in the bright sunshine I mentioned my Seven Hotel Stories.
I said I was proud of the stories, and that they sold in good numbers. Someone asked: why is that?
Hilarious short stories can improve your life
I said: “I guess it’s because the Hotel Stories can improve your life.” Here’s how.
Chuckleworthy
(i) The Hotel Stories are funny. One reviewer said Susan, Engineering Manager of a hotel in The White Blouse “had me chuckling on the tube”. Every time Susan pronounces something wrong she insults an arrogant man. Everyone knows that laughter can improve your mental and physical health. The excerpt from The White Blouse on this site includes an introduction to Susan.
Hotel best practice
(ii) The Hotel Stories provide top training for hotel staff and managers on how to treat customers. The excerpt from The Two Rooms on this site shows how Ms N, the brilliant, unpredictable and occasionally homicidal hotel general manager who is the star of the series, simultaneously solves half a dozen crises so that Tatiana, on the front desk, can sort out the astonishing list of extras on the bill of the gay couple, Ms Feuchtwangler and Ms Cladders, with the quality service which they deserve. The more hotel staff work to the standards of Ms N and Tatiana, the better your next stay in a hotel will be.
Relax
(iii) The Hotel Stories lower your blood pressure. Ever felt your blood pressure rise when you see someone behaving badly? Have you felt unable to intervene? Ever hear the expression “don’t get mad, get even”? When you read how Ms N gets even with the obnoxious Buddy Knox in Gents, your blood pressure will improve. Buddy Knox is introduced in the excerpt from Gents on this site.
Cheer up with some hilarious short stories
(iv) Are you gloomy about the state of the world? The Hotel Stories remind you the world is actually a terrific planet. With help and training from Ms N, even someone who “comes from a poor village far from the historic capital of our beautiful country”, like the beautiful but naive Tatiana, can tackle the thorniest problems. These include Mr Minas, the over-sexed owner of the hotel. He is introduced in the excerpt from Britches on this site. Britches also provides important information about what a Scotsman wears under his kilt, although you have to read the whole story for that.
Top tips for hotel guests
(v) if you do ever visit hotels, the Hotel Stories contain invaluable information on how to interact with hotel staff to make the most of your stay. If you don’t want to end up like Mr Burke, Mr Minas, Buddy Knox or any of the other villains who people their pages, in episodes featuring ultra-sharp Chroma knives and many thousand cubic metres of concrete, you’d better be polite. As one reviewer has pointed out: next time you check into a hotel, it may be Tatiana at the reception – or Ms N cruising the lobby, wearing her inquisitive smile with just a hint of mischief.
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If you really want to know how to behave in hotels, study The Swedish Woman. Now that is class.
If you fancy buying some Hotel Stories, you can get the complete via the “buy now” buttons on this site. Check it out.