Some things ought to:
A wounded British soldier home from Afghanistan on sick leave was forced to spend the night in his car after a hotel refused him a room.
Corporal Tomos Stringer was told by staff at Metro Hotel, in Woking, that it was company policy not to accept members of the armed forces as guests. The 24-year-old had traveled to the Surrey town to help with funeral preparations for a friend killed in action.
It was so late that Cpl Stringer, who had broken his wrist jumping off an Army truck as it was attacked, had no choice but to sleep in his tiny, two-door car, arm covered in plaster.
Kipling was here first over a hundred years ago. Absurd in the 21st Century.
Now, wouldn’t this be a good time for one of the Princes to show up in uniform, Corporal in tow.
YGTBSM.
Hearts of rotting oak.
So it’s company policy, eh? I’d love to be the hotel across the street — I’d make the company policy of my competition known far and wide. I’m talking billboards, radio ads, notes to all the travel agents. Heck, I might even buy ads for them in the major media:
“Welcome to the Parsimonious Arse, where company policy says we don’t serve those who serve us.”
One vote we all have is when we spend coin of the realm, and that vote happens daily rather than every four or six years.
– Max
I have a feeling I’ll be flamed for this but in the interests of balance;
“Refused accom as hotel had a “treat with caution” policy following multiple incidents with soldiers from the local barracks staying there. Regardless of the individuals circumstances, it was allegedly poor behaviour on the part of members of the British Army that caused the policy to be imposed in the first place. ”
Not that it is an excuse in this case, I’ll be damned if I take some desk clerks side over a serviceman home from active duty.
Saw this a few days ago. And, yes, I know why there is the prohibition on service members.
But I wonder. . .would they even have tried this if it was found that blacks/Hispanics/muslims/etc. were found to cause more damage than the general population??
I mean, this IS the country that won’t show puppies in their ads or allow eating during Ramadan, for fear of offending tender sensibilities.
Flat,
Heard that.
Oh yeah on the Kipling. Plaster saints they ain’t, and yep, those uniforms are starvation cheap, judging by what I’ve read of ammo and other shortages.
I write as one whose copy of Kipling’s works is so old that it actually has the Swastika on the cover. (printed in nineteen twenty-something)