The towel incident

Our apartment complex is also a hotel which benefits us because that means we get maid service, fresh sheets every week and the best part: new towels. Living at a hotel definitely has its drawbacks; mainly the three tour busses full of screaming, giggling chinese teenagers that arrive almost every weekend - but that's another story. Back to the towels.... a couple days after we moved into the apartment complex I was walking through the lobby alone on my way out to the car. I was almost to the car when a tiny child laborer (there's several children that WORK at our place) flagged me down and motioned for me to comeback inside. One of the receptionists handed me her cell phone and told me that Tai (their English speaking manager) needed to talk to me. Basically she told me that she was going to charge us for RUINING for towels . Meanwhile, the 15 receptionists have laid out three of my towels in the middle of the lobby and one is being held up by another child laborer while they all point to little marks on the towels. EMBARRASSING!!!!! I haven't mentioned this before but I need to explain that Thai businesses almost always have about five times the necessary number of employees working any given shift. SO that
means that there was about 15 employees talking about my dirty laundry. Anyways, the marks on the towels were obviously Nelly's and my mascara they told me that it hadn't come out in the wash. I may have been born at night but not last night; I know that
Nelly's and my makeup definitely comes out in the was and besides, they couldn't have washed/dryed the towels already because they had only collected them about an hour ago! We're used to being lied to constantly in this country so that's not the part
that bothered me - it was obviously the fact that they had all my towels laid out (in front of other guests too) and kept repeatedly saying "dirty, dirty, dirty." I almost died! I eventually convinced them not to charge us because Nelly and I hand washed all the mascara spots but it was still soooo embarrassing. Stupid Thai hotels!!!