"Have you just flown in from Australia?"
No, I flew in from Miami, and I'm English anyway
This happens more often than it should, but the hotel dude then redeemed himself by apologising for the whole George Bush thing.
"Y'know we're sorry about that. Really sorry. I worked on the John Kerry campaign here in Seattle and we got 87% of the vote"
Well fuck dude, you shoulda been in Ohio or Florida.
87% though. If it's true, I'm impressed. Even in an enlightened city like Seattle there are going to be people who vote for Bush accidentally, or through mental illness.
It did occur to me that the floppy-haired hotel dude was a little too apologetic. Like he was hiding a dirty secret. Maybe he is the child of one of those toxic right-wing vixens that seem to be everywhere on television here. Or he has been blowing Rush Limbaugh.
*Shudder*