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Fugendichter
User since 2008
Posts: 588

7 April 2008

How much a little something should be today at a reception of an hotel...


(CW)

7 comments

  • User since 2006
    Posts: 2715

    8 April 2008

    At a hotel reception desk today the little something I'd love very much is a smile. Just a pretty smile, not a grin from ear to ear.


    Tell me, Gwendo, did I catch your say?


    [CS] a hotel
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  • User since 2008
    Posts: 588

    8 April 2008

    Hi Sandy,


    I hope, you caught it, because I'm really uncertain about this subject, because it differs from country to country and it obviously depends on the age and the sexe of the traveller. Do you agree with me?


    I would appreciate, if a pretty little smile was the right currency in this case.


    Thank you for your gracious answer!


    Gwendo
  • User since 2006
    Posts: 2715

    8 April 2008

    So, we learn that Gwendo's little things at hotel reception desks are, according to country, sex and age, a tip, a gratuity, a largess, a bribe, a graft, sexual advances and whatnot.
    Who would not agree with Gwendo's offers?
  • User since 2007
    Posts: 1

    21 July 2008

    a pretty little smile, or a mint, or a little piece of candy... in Switzerland even you can have a little piece of chocolate... swiss, of course!


    but, Gee...? "sexual advances"...?!
  • User since 2006
    Posts: 2715

    22 July 2008

    Not for me, readytogo, but for some people the sort of Philip Cheeter.
  • User since 2008
    Posts: 588

    23 July 2008

    Very good wriggling out of the situation?! Projective identification?
  • User since 2006
    Posts: 2715

    24 July 2008

    Gwendo introduced me to unconscious optics as she is an psychoanalyst whitout knowing it - unless knowing it perfectly.

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