Just another day or is it.
Good day readers it's Robbie here.
It's Thursday and another exciting day at Amsterdam Escape. With Brendan out action now for 3 days with his swelled big toe it's down to Emmett and mothership to do all the work and more.
Today was no exception. After working all day we got a call from one of our guests around 7pm during one of our many organic coffee breaks informing us the windows in the apartment had fallen out into the street. They had the window open and the ropes which operate the window system snapped and the window came down with a bang , smashing the pains of glass and the police were outside. Neighbours had phoned them , It's a Dutch thing, anything happens call the police. For everything, they all call the fuzz, 1st chance they get.
Emmett, Dee and myself dropped everything onto the nearest clear surface, not an easy thing to do in motherships apartment as it's full to the brim with papers. All types of papers, news papers, business papers, rolling papers, rolls and rolls of half used toilet paper left over from guests which mothership ends up with somehow and piles of used envelopes still with their stamps on piled up waiting for their stamps to be removed for reuse.
Mothership being mothership found out many many moons ago that you can get away with removing most stamps from envelopes received and then reuse them. Mohership hasen't bought a stamp since the mid eighties. But over the last few years with more and more franking machines being used it's getting harder and harder to get the stamps. It's a dying business she informs us regularly.
Anyway to get back to this exciting episode , we dropped the coffee cups and all ran for the emergency poles with bells a ringing all around us.
Emmett and myself ran all the way with Mothership flying ahead of us, when we reached the scene Mothership had already arrived and was in the process of taking charge of the situation, quickly managing to win around the coppers (Police) and after having a few laughs with her, they left as did mothership.
Glass littered the ground and a large crowd of on lookers looked on as I got a large brush and started sweeping all the glass up. One of the nosy cop calling neighbours nosed their way to the front of the crowd and then nosed her way over to where I was sweeping. After a few words spoken in Dutch to me she quickly got the message and repeated in all again in English.
"Is this place being used as tourist apartments" she squeeked at me.
I must have looked back at her with one of my Boston Strangler looks as she backed off and returned to her husband also nosing but from the saftey of the path. I finished sweeping and put away the brush and broken glass. The nosey cop calling neighbours were still looking on from their doorway so I decided to walk around the block instead of having to pass them. Ken arrived (Laurel) and patched up the window then returned to where he had come from, the pub but on passing the nosey nighbours they cornered him and fired question after question at him. We are still not sure of his answers as he cannot remember the questions even after Motherships three hour interagation.
I ended up doing the final check-in of the day at 23.25 , their plane was delayed for a few hours due to all this crap with illigal hand cream and YK jelly and all other creams and liquids.
I think I will start my own airline " Take your chance airlines".
The world has finally slipped when a tube of hand cream can start a red alert on an airplane and have fighter jets scrammbled.
To do what I wonder, Shoot it down if it gets to close to Washington maybe.
It's Thursday and another exciting day at Amsterdam Escape. With Brendan out action now for 3 days with his swelled big toe it's down to Emmett and mothership to do all the work and more.
Today was no exception. After working all day we got a call from one of our guests around 7pm during one of our many organic coffee breaks informing us the windows in the apartment had fallen out into the street. They had the window open and the ropes which operate the window system snapped and the window came down with a bang , smashing the pains of glass and the police were outside. Neighbours had phoned them , It's a Dutch thing, anything happens call the police. For everything, they all call the fuzz, 1st chance they get.
Emmett, Dee and myself dropped everything onto the nearest clear surface, not an easy thing to do in motherships apartment as it's full to the brim with papers. All types of papers, news papers, business papers, rolling papers, rolls and rolls of half used toilet paper left over from guests which mothership ends up with somehow and piles of used envelopes still with their stamps on piled up waiting for their stamps to be removed for reuse.
Mothership being mothership found out many many moons ago that you can get away with removing most stamps from envelopes received and then reuse them. Mohership hasen't bought a stamp since the mid eighties. But over the last few years with more and more franking machines being used it's getting harder and harder to get the stamps. It's a dying business she informs us regularly.
Anyway to get back to this exciting episode , we dropped the coffee cups and all ran for the emergency poles with bells a ringing all around us.
Emmett and myself ran all the way with Mothership flying ahead of us, when we reached the scene Mothership had already arrived and was in the process of taking charge of the situation, quickly managing to win around the coppers (Police) and after having a few laughs with her, they left as did mothership.
Glass littered the ground and a large crowd of on lookers looked on as I got a large brush and started sweeping all the glass up. One of the nosy cop calling neighbours nosed their way to the front of the crowd and then nosed her way over to where I was sweeping. After a few words spoken in Dutch to me she quickly got the message and repeated in all again in English.
"Is this place being used as tourist apartments" she squeeked at me.
I must have looked back at her with one of my Boston Strangler looks as she backed off and returned to her husband also nosing but from the saftey of the path. I finished sweeping and put away the brush and broken glass. The nosey cop calling neighbours were still looking on from their doorway so I decided to walk around the block instead of having to pass them. Ken arrived (Laurel) and patched up the window then returned to where he had come from, the pub but on passing the nosey nighbours they cornered him and fired question after question at him. We are still not sure of his answers as he cannot remember the questions even after Motherships three hour interagation.
I ended up doing the final check-in of the day at 23.25 , their plane was delayed for a few hours due to all this crap with illigal hand cream and YK jelly and all other creams and liquids.
I think I will start my own airline " Take your chance airlines".
The world has finally slipped when a tube of hand cream can start a red alert on an airplane and have fighter jets scrammbled.
To do what I wonder, Shoot it down if it gets to close to Washington maybe.
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