Expensive Hotel

A husband and wife are traveling by car from Atlanta to New York to. Afteralmost twenty-four hours on the road, they're too tired to continue,and they decide to stop for a rest. They stop at a nice hotel and take aroom, butthey only plan to sleep for four hours and then get back on the road.When they check out four hours later, the desk clerk hands them a bill for$350. The man explodes and demands to know why the charge is so high. Hetells the clerk although it's a nice hotel, the rooms certainly aren'tworth $350. When the clerk tells him $350 is the standard rate, the maninsists on speaking to themanager.The manager listens to the man and then explains the hotel has anOlympic-sized pool and a huge conference center that were available for thehusband and wife to use. He also explains they could have taken in one ofthe shows for which the hotel is famous. "The best entertainers from NewYork, Hollywood and Las Vegas performhere," explains the manager. No matter what facility the manager mentions,the man replies, "But wedidn't use it!" The manager is unmoved and eventually the man gives up andagrees to pay. Hewrites a check and gives it to the manager. The manager is surprised whenhe looks at the check. "But sir," he says, "this check is only made out for$100.""That's right," says the man. "I charged you $250 for sleeping with mywife.""But I didn't!" exclaims the manager."Well," the man replies, "she was here, and you could have."