Great Breakfast with a Dirty Tub

As Jason Clark's program, The Snakes of Georgia Encounter, continues to grow in popularity, we've often found ourselves traveling more and more and as a result spending many nights in hotel rooms across the state. Some places have definitely been better than others. One particular hotel that we frequent four or five times a year happens to have an excellent breakfast bar and is thus one of our favorite places to stay. As always, we travel with an array of reptiles. Some venues provide a safe place for our snakes to spend the night but often can't adequately accommodate our alligators. So, the alligators, which are still quite small, stay with us at the hotel in the bath tub. The gators have never caused a problem before and always seem to enjoy their warm over night soak. I recently received a phone call from this particular hotel which stated that they would be adding a $100. cleanup fee to our room. I couldn't imagine why. We've never left a room in disarray before. The manager then began to inform me that the extra fee was due to the fact that someone in our party had defecated in the bathtub! Usually the alligators do not do this in the tub and if we would have noticed it, we would have never left it for the maid.

After all, Sarah's the one that was responsible for the gator's that day and she's a neat freak! Now, here was my quandary. Should I save any embarrassment and tell the manager that it was not us humans but actually a few alligators that soiled the tub? Doing this would definitely prohibit us from returning to their hotel and delighting in their breakfast that we have always enjoyed so much. After all, do you think she would believe it was a gator? On the other hand, if I don't tell her the truth then she'll think that one of us may have missed the toilet. I decided to apologize for my "wife's accident" and pay the bill.

Moral of the story - Don't poop where you sleep.