In a Danish airline office: We take your baggage and send it all directions.
In the lobby of a Bucharest hotel: The lift is being fixed for the next day. During that time we regret that you will be unbearable.
In an Athens hotel: Visitors are expected to complain at the office between the hours of 9and 11 A.M. daily.
On the door of a Moscow hotel room: If this is your first visit to the USSR, you are welcome to it.
In the lobby of a Bucharest hotel: The lift is being fixed for the next day. During that time we regret that you will be unbearable.
In an Athens hotel: Visitors are expected to complain at the office between the hours of 9and 11 A.M. daily.
On the door of a Moscow hotel room: If this is your first visit to the USSR, you are welcome to it.
Adam
Jacot de Boinod worked on the first series of BBC Television’s QI for Stephen
Fry, and is the author of The Meaning of Tingo and Other Extraordinary Words
from around the World – Penguin Books, £10.
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