Mr. Hutchinson vs. the American guests
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GayBoi1 — 9 years ago(December 27, 2016 01:35 AM)
A lot of people on another thread on here seem to think the American couple from the Waldorf Salad were the worst guests, but I beg to differ. I think Mr. Hutchinson from the Hotel Inspectors episode was worse.
Mr. Hutchinson- Expected a hotel restaurant to have fresh from the garden peas and completely cancelled the order when he found out they didn't. Like what hotel is going to have fresh from the garden peas anyway? Any restaurant is going to have frozen peas.
- Criticized Polly for spilling his drink when he was the one who moved the glass when she was pouring it.
- Changed his order constantly and confused the staff.
- Complained about every little thing in the hotel, including the telephone receiver being too greasy in his opinion.
- Screamed at Basil and disturbed the whole restaurant causing Basil to have to put his hand around his mouth to try to shut him up.
- Actually physically assaulted Basil in the face a number of times and then claimed he wasn't a violent man
At least Mr. Hamilton was willing to let things go when he got the salad he wanted but it was Basil who couldn't that time.
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Noddy_Comet — 9 years ago(December 29, 2016 02:45 AM)
Yep, Mr Hutchinson would have totally wound me up, whereas Mr Hamilton didn't come across as particularly unreasonable - brash, certainly, but not unreasonable. He was more annoyed by Basil constantly lying to him. Hutchinson, on the other hand, was one of those people who it's just impossible to please.
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johnbalance — 9 years ago(January 05, 2017 08:27 AM)
Yep, I worked in a call center and regularly got people like Hutchinson who were impossible to please and determined to find something complain , it was stressful enough dealing with them on the phone never mind face to face. He also has no sense of humour or irony whatsoever which is what makes him so funny from a comedic point of view but a nightmare to have anything to do with in real life.