Paz Follow Up

Dear Friends-

This has nothing to do with China. Only Paz the Maid.

I travel to San Jose for work a lot. To tell the bosses some stuff about my trips to China and Taiwan because they think I know what is going on.

When I travel to San Jose I stay in the same hotel every time. In most hotels, I like to drink the in-room coffee in the morning. It's better than walking and/or waiting. In Asia that means powdered coffee in your boiled water. They put water boiling machines in most rooms because people don't like cold water. Plus the water will make you sick.

In San Jose, you have the little coffee machine with the little filter/packet things.

Recently, the San Jose hotel remodeled. They added these big dresser things with giant flat screens on top. Inside the dresser thing is the coffee maker. The problem is that you have to open the doors, find the plug and run it outside the doors and around the side of the dresser thing. The result is a fair amount of fiddling around and then a lot doors, cords and coffee making stuff running all over the place. You have to be careful not to trip over the plug or doors when you come back to the room. Just for a cup of okay coffee.

This evening I got back to the hotel and was working for at least an hour before I noticed that someone had taken out the whole coffee maker (which is on a serving tray) and placed it neatly on top of the dresser thing. That way you can close the doors, easily run the cord into the outlet on the side of the dresser and find all the coffee making stuff without sticking your head inside the dresser.

Unbelievable.

I don't know if I was mad or happy. It's briliant and maddening all at the same time. I can just see the housekeeping lady shaking her head as she placed the coffee maker in the obvious place. Probably very similar to Paz the Maid placing all my money in the most obvious place someone should put their money.

I miss Paz the Maid!