---->A Hotel is a Funny Place<----

In most of the civilised world,a knock-knock on the dooor means, "Is anyone hone?"

In a hotel, knock-knock means, "Coming in, ready or not!"

What really distinguishes the hotel knock-knock from your everyday knock-knock is that in the case of the hotel knock-knock, the one who does the knock-knock knocking is also the one who open the door.

In everyday knock-knock, the person inside first gets to say, "Who's there?" and, when satisfied that the one outside is not homicidal maniac, he may then open the door from the inside and let the knock-knocker in.

In a hotel, the door is almost always opened from the outside.

Variations on the hotel knock-knock:
1. "Are you going to sleep all day, you lazy lout, are you?"
2."Yes, I see your 'Do not Disturb' sign, but you're my last room and it's four o'clock already and I can't go home until I find out of you want service or not and I'm just wondering if you're dead in there or something!"

Q. What else distinguishes the hotel knock-knock from the garden variety knock-knock?
A. In a hotel, the knock-knock and the opening of the door are simultaneous.

Moreover, entry by the knock-knock into your room is so immediate that - light and sound being what they are - you may actually find yourself confronted by your maid good four-tenths of second prior to hearing the knockk-knock!

Q. Why is this?
A. It is because hotel maids have a highly developed sense of intrusion, (Not to be confused with sense of interruption, generally confined to restaurant waiters).

Q. How does it work?
A. Please see the following sample occasions.

"Knock-knock."
"Who's-------?"
"Opss, Sorry. I didn't know your were in." (Note the unfinished "Who's there?")

"Knock-knock."
"???"
"Opss, Sorry. Just Kidding." (Insufficient time to utter "Who's there?")

"Opss, sorry thought you're out."-(Knock-knock)
"!!!"
(No time to event hink "Who's there?" Knock-knock heard after maid's full sentence.)

Read the following conversation very carefully:
MAID: Opss. Sorry. Your 'Do Not Disturb' sign isn't on your door.
YOU: I shouted "Who's there?" Didn't you hear me shout "Who's there?"
MAID: Yes but I was in already. Should I make the bed?
YOU: No, not now! Later!
MAID: You didn't put your 'Do Not Disturb' sign.
YOU: For God's sake!
MAID: How about if I come back in a half hour?
YOU: Fine. Fine, Come back in a half hour.
MAID: All rightee. 'll be back in half hour.

How would you classify the preceeding conversation?
a. Pleasant
b. Unpleasant
c. Unbearable

The correct answer would be unbearable.
Why?
YOUR'RE NAKED!!!!!!!!!!!!

-Adapted from The Borneo Post, Economica, S. Berman,13 Jan 2003-
"This is so funny"