Did Not Want To Room In A Lift
A lady from Iceland, arriving for the first time in New Zealand, drove to a large hotel, asked for a room, and was shown into what she considered to be a very small, scantily-furnished apartment. She said, in. a determined manner and in broken English: “I will not have this room.” The porter brought in the first box. The lady repeated emphatically: w “I will not have this room.” “No, madam,” said the porter, and brought in a second box.
The lady thought that her faulty grammatical construction was the reason for the porter’s continued obstinacy and repeated with de4iberate distinctness: “I will this room not have!”
To her astonishment the porter drew her hurriedly back across the threshold, switched on the power and the lift went up!
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 23, 19 April 1950, Page 3
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136Did Not Want To Room In A Lift Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 23, 19 April 1950, Page 3
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