East Coast Roadshow: Strange Rules
Staying at the Festival Towers has been an interesting experience of rules lawyering, proactive lawyer blocking, and inexplicable events designed to reduce how much enjoyment you could accidentally scrape out of the communal facilities.
First up is the mandatory alarm warning. We have a choice of Road Runner or extreme disinterest.
In case of road runner, run.
In the event of extreme disinterest, please evacuate. If you hear a road runner, check for traps, coyotes and ACME goods. Meanwhile, downstairs on the fourth floor communal gym, pool, spa, BBQ and lounge, we’re treated to the juxtaposition of the kitchenette and the misunderstanding of what people who have a kitchenette, comfortable chairs and nearby lounge might considering doing with these options.
This kitchen is for display purpose only
To top this off, the cleaning staff here have a very strict policy of not understanding what you do with dishwashers, and what doesn’t go into the automated system – like knives, woks, clean dishes on a draining board and the draining board itself. It’s a three way tie for weirdest moment with the dishwasher between
- discovering the wok (which I’d oiled and cleaned and left out on the stove) rusting quietly to itself in the dishwasher
- two teaspoons and a glass in the dishwasher (washed).
- knife, fork and glass in in the dishwasher (unwashed).
- the dishrack.
The piece de resistance was the morning that they threw out the sponge I’d bought for washing up, put the clean rice cooker and the entire contents of the dishrack into the dishwasher, and then hid the dishrack in the back of a cupboard. Was there some union line I’d crossed with doing my own washing up?
