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What do you do with the
jam jar spoon when you're a guest at a Bed & Breakfast?
Test Your B & B Guest
Etiquette IQ
a. Lick it before placing it
back in the jam.
b. Use it to spread jam on your toast or muffin.
c. Use one jam spoon for all the jam flavors.
d. Use it to transfer jam to your plate, return it to the same
jam jar, then use your own butter spreader to spread it on your
toast. (The correct answer.)
(ERIE PA) Who cares?, you say.
Well, if you're the next guest at the table do you want a stranger's
crumbs (or worse) in your jam? The problem is: not everyone knows
the new etiquette for bed and breakfast stays. The
B & B Guest Etiquette Quiz offers 104 tips written
"in the form of a question."
When a contestant on Jeopardy!
mentioned that a B & B host had insulted guests by plastering
rules on sticky notes all over the home, Andrea Reynolds, former
owner of Author's Bed & Breakfast in Toronto, knew there
was a better, kinder way to enlighten travelers new to the idea
of staying in a Bed and Breakfast over a hotel or motel. So she
wrote a 24 page booklet of 104 guest etiquette tips in the style
of popular TV game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?".
Reynolds, once a family and
consumer science teacher, found that 70% of her guests were first-timers.
"I didn't want to be a critical parent or make my guests
feel uncomfortable, so after asking a dozen hosts to tell me
their worst guest stories, I wrote a humorous article and hung
a copy in each guest bathroom as the only reading matter. Guest
manners improved and many guests said they were grateful for
the guidelines. I get better results when teaching with kindness
than with intimidation so the article grew into a lighthearted
quiz booklet. It still makes good bathroom reading."
Reynolds, interviewed by Sir
David Frost and other journalists on national television on the
subject of etiquette, advises: "Remember, you're a guest
in someone's private home. It's NOT OK to parade through the
common areas in your underwear, raid the fridge at night, throw
impromptu parties, sleep all day, snoop in private areas, nor
bring hookers into the home. (Yes, it has happened.) But, it
IS good to pay on arrival -- after all, hosts hand you the keys
to their house -- introduce your partner by name, use your phone
card to make long distance calls, and go out for the day after
breakfast."
Her 24 page oversize booklet,
The B & B Guest Etiquette Quiz
is available only by mail order for $8.00 US. Checks,
money orders, and travelers' cheques are welcome: Andrea Reynolds,
PO Box 49, Lake City Pennsylvania 16423 USA. For more information,
email Andrea at info@AndreaReynolds.com
or visit www.AndreaReynolds.com/BBquiz.html
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