Comments on: I will sleep with rats if I get an apology. If not, I will sleep with rats, but I will sulk. https://sorrywatch.com/i-will-sleep-with-rats-if-i-get-an-apology-if-not-i-will-sleep-with-rats-but-i-will-sulk/ Analyzing apologies in the news, media, history and literature. We condemn the bad and exalt the good. Fri, 07 Aug 2020 16:38:50 +0000 hourly 1 By: :paula https://sorrywatch.com/i-will-sleep-with-rats-if-i-get-an-apology-if-not-i-will-sleep-with-rats-but-i-will-sulk/#comment-8227 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:57:17 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=1225#comment-8227 Maybe in my dotage I have become an entitled prima donna type traveler…but I have stayed in actual hovels in Tunisia, India, and oh my god Nevada, and if I see a rat in my room, you will find me a new room – in another hotel – and not charge me a cent.

]]> By: sumac https://sorrywatch.com/i-will-sleep-with-rats-if-i-get-an-apology-if-not-i-will-sleep-with-rats-but-i-will-sulk/#comment-7723 Tue, 16 Apr 2013 02:45:18 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=1225#comment-7723 In reply to marjorie.

I defer to no one in my admiration for rodents. Yet I do not feel they should dictate SorryWatch content. If something in the wastebasket is going to wake me up in the middle of the night, it had better be at least a capybara to avoid the apology penalty.

]]> By: marjorie https://sorrywatch.com/i-will-sleep-with-rats-if-i-get-an-apology-if-not-i-will-sleep-with-rats-but-i-will-sulk/#comment-7720 Mon, 15 Apr 2013 23:59:25 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=1225#comment-7720 my world-traveler youth-hostel-lovin’ friend agrees with david. she did not think this incident was apology-warranting OR that the apology was bad. but then, she is a rat.

]]> By: macoyote https://sorrywatch.com/i-will-sleep-with-rats-if-i-get-an-apology-if-not-i-will-sleep-with-rats-but-i-will-sulk/#comment-7713 Mon, 15 Apr 2013 17:17:14 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=1225#comment-7713 In the future, easily solved. Small card on pillow, “Rats, mice, and ghosts, no charge,
courtesy of the management.”

]]> By: smc https://sorrywatch.com/i-will-sleep-with-rats-if-i-get-an-apology-if-not-i-will-sleep-with-rats-but-i-will-sulk/#comment-7712 Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:58:08 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=1225#comment-7712 You sleep in a jail why? So you can say you slept in a jail. It gives you some chance to claim to understand what it might be like in jail (fail). So a rat certainly adds verisimilitude.

Imagine the rat problem faced by former inmates. Maybe the problem is that the guest got fed too well in the “dining room”. Otherwise he may have had an entirely different attitude to finding a free rat nicely captured. (See recipe in “Lobscouse and Spotted Dog”, Grossman & Grossman, 2000)

]]> By: David Turoff https://sorrywatch.com/i-will-sleep-with-rats-if-i-get-an-apology-if-not-i-will-sleep-with-rats-but-i-will-sulk/#comment-7710 Mon, 15 Apr 2013 10:22:56 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=1225#comment-7710 I don’t know, maybe my standards are too low, but I would have been satisfied with the prompt removal of the rat, and would have been surprised if there had been more than a perfunctory, pro-forma apology (which is probably what the employee did).

]]> By: Anita https://sorrywatch.com/i-will-sleep-with-rats-if-i-get-an-apology-if-not-i-will-sleep-with-rats-but-i-will-sulk/#comment-7705 Mon, 15 Apr 2013 07:39:29 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=1225#comment-7705 I’ll bet it was not a nasty, nasty rat. I’ll bet it was a really CLEAN rat…

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