. . . for centuries, many if not most American hotels, motels and inns rely on so-called "house detectives" to supply their "profit margin." As depicted here, these management flunkies are hired for their long-distance running ability, being required to go to any lengths for the purpose of coercing "guests" to shell out additional extra cash they often do not have for a host of superfluous charges and add-on shocking surprise bogus penalty fees. Say, for instance that you are the head coach of a Division Two athletic team, staying in Chicago after your season-ending championship event. Let's say that the motel you booked on the drive from Houghton to St. Louis claims to have no record of your reservation when you arrive there exhausted on your return trip. Being forced to call around for last-minute replacement lodging, your only choice seems to be a casino hotel way off your return route. Checking in after midnight well over budget, you stress proper decorum and best behavior--and personally inventory the condition of every room the following morning, even to point of having the correct number of white terry cloth resort bathrobes in each room's closet. Yet, because this joint is run by gangsters, they contact your school's athletic director with a demand for thousands of dollars in damages for broken beds, lamps and "stolen" bath robes, with the threat of having the institution permanently "black-listed" in Chicago if the blood money is not collected and wired to them within a week! Instead of fighting this outrage, your school threatens team members with expulsion if their parents do not fork over "their share" of the extortion demand. You're fired, of course. This is the sort of thing against which FORTY PINK WINKS warns Americans who travel.
Review of Forty Pink Winks
