Dear Dish on All-Inclusiveness
Dear Dish:
Recently I was down south with my girlfriend at an all‑inclusive resort. At one point, she was thirsty and requested a bottle of water from the bar (as we had been warned not to drink the water) and she was asked for $2. We were not impressed as we had paid for the ALL‑INCLUSIVE package.
What are your thoughts on this? We ended up opting for the Pepsi and, on future gatherings at that particular bar, we brought our own litre of water to the bar with us. But this is inconvenient as well.
My question is what should we have done about the situation?
A Cranky Consumer
Dear Cranky:
Since Dish is a non‑drinker, it makes her extremely cranky to hear this as well. Why must society cater only to the alcohol drinkers among us? WHY?!! (That’s a rhetorical question of course. Dish doesn’t ask questions. She answers them. The answer to that one is clearly a sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll type of answer.)
With regard to what you should have done, I definitely think a protest was in order. Next time, I suggest picket signs and loud chanting. A few rhymes that come immediately to mind that may help with signage and/or chanting are: “Elusive All Inclusive”, “Hell – no H20”, “Stop the slaughter, give us water!” But you can work on that aspect of the situation.
The point is that the squeaky wheel gets the grease! The bigger the fuss you make, the more “the man” (i.e. the sneaky all-inclusive resort that denies you your basic needs) will want to appease you in order to shut you up. Scenes are your greatest ally in these types of situations. Generally speaking, Dish does not approve of scenes; however, when you are clearly in the right, sometimes a good scene is necessary in order to get the things to which you are entitled.
Fight the power!
Dish
posted by Dish @ 3:15 PM
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