The Ogden Nash Room
Don't you just hate it when you specify, in advance, that you want at least a queen-sized bed, and they tell you it won't be any trouble,
And then you show up after travelling all day, and you're tired and just about ready to drop, and they open the door to your room, and it turns out they've given you a double?
But it's late at night, so you take the room they gave you and you throw yourself down on the mattress and try to make the best of it without becoming unduly sullen or grumpy,
Since you're only one person, after all, and a double bed should be big enough, but after a minute you find you can't sleep, since not only is the bed too small, but the mattress is lumpy,
And so you get up, put all your clothes back on, and go down to the front desk to have a few choice words with the sleepy nighttime hotelier
Who says, "No problem, sir, we have plenty of rooms with king-sized brand-new mattresses, and we'll give you one of those and, because of the inconvenience, you won't have to pay,"
And then you feel guilty for having been so rude to the poor man at the front desk and wish you had just said something the moment you checked in and found they had given you a double
Instead of docilely accepting what they offered because you were raised by your mother and father never to cause unnecessary trouble.
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