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Every week, I’ll be sharing a new grudge that’s not in my book — sometimes mine, sometimes someone else’s (with their permission, obviously!) There are plenty of new grudges born every minute – send yours to grudgescanbegood@gmail.com if you would like to share it and have it analysed!<\/p>\n
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One of my own Grudges<\/em><\/p>\n Hotels playing really loud music with pounding rhythms that shake my hotel room when I\u2019d ideally like to go to sleep. At a hotel recently, the sixth floor bar\/event space hosted a Friday night party that was so loud, my room (on the fifth floor) was shaking from the noise. I asked to move rooms. While I was moving, I encountered three other fifth floor guests, all also being moved. There we all were, pyjama-clad, disconsolately wheeling our suitcases around in the middle of the night when we would have preferred to be asleep.<\/p>\n In my new room, I could still hear a faint pulse of bass, but it was bearable. I slept. The next morning, I suggested to the hotel staff that it was unreasonable to play music in any part of the hotel that\u2019s so loud, it prevents guests from sleeping. Two members of staff gave me the same answer: \u2018I quite understand, and we\u2019re sorry, but you see we always have a big party here on Friday and Saturday nights, until late, and the people who come for the party expect the music to be very loud.<\/p>\n I explained to the hotel staff that I was going to hold a Misunderstanding of the Main Role of a Hotel Grudge about them, and that is the exact species of grudge I am now holding. A hotel is primarily a place people pay to sleep in. This particular hotel (like many I\u2019ve stayed in before it) misunderstands its central purpose, and is under the illusion that a hotel is supposed to be a mainly a nightclub that happens to have some beds in it. Imagine a butcher\u2019s shop (main function = selling meat) that had vegans lined up ready to punch customers in the face if they said \u2018May I have some lamb chops, please?\u2019 Would that be a butcher\u2019s shop that was able to do its primary job effectively? No, it would not.<\/p>\n I love this grudge because it\u2019s going to improve my life significantly. From now on, before booking or allowing myself to be booked into any hotel, I am first going to ask: \u2018Do you plan to play any loud music at any point during my stay that might prevent me from sleeping?\u2019 If the answer is yes, I will go and find another, quieter hotel. On principle, however, I think *any* hotel that prevents *any* of its guests from sleeping in this way during reasonable night-time hours doesn\u2019t entirely deserve to be still in business. That\u2019s some Bad Hotel.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/sophiehannah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/big-cactus-trans-25-1.svg” _builder_version=”3.15″ max_width=”16%” module_alignment=”right”]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.15″]<\/p>\n Discover Sophie’s Grudge Type classification system in HOW TO HOLD A GRUDGE – available from all good book retailers now!<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.17.2″ saved_tabs=”all” custom_padding=”50px||” global_module=”2151″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text global_parent=”2151″ header_2_font_size=”40px” _builder_version=”3.17.2″ header_font=”||||||||” header_2_font=”|700|||||||” header_2_text_align=”center”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_code global_parent=”2151″ _builder_version=”3.17.2″][ess_grid alias=”grudge”][\/et_pb_code][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ custom_padding_last_edited=”on|tablet” _builder_version=”3.15″ use_background_color_gradient=”on” background_color_gradient_start=”rgba(252,168,58,0.7)” background_color_gradient_end=”#edf1c4″ custom_margin_tablet=”0px|||” custom_margin_last_edited=”on|desktop” custom_padding_tablet=”0px|||” prev_background_color=”#ffffff”][et_pb_row background_color_1=”rgba(255,255,255,0.4)” padding_top_1=”19px” padding_right_1=”2px” padding_bottom_1=”2px” _builder_version=”3.15″][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.15″ text_font=”|600|on||||||” text_text_color=”#eb5e26″ custom_margin=”||0px|” custom_padding=”|40px|0px|40px|false|true”]<\/p>\n \u201c<\/strong><\/em>About devastating historical events and atrocities, we often say, \u2018Never forget\u2019. Why? Is it that we want to extend the suffering for as long as possible? No, of course not \u2014 it\u2019s because we know that history (the horrible bits of it especially) contains useful lessons and warnings that we would be fools to ignore.<\/p>\n Yet about upsetting personal incidents, we often hear people say, \u2018Don\u2019t hold a grudge. Move on, for your own sake.\u2019 Every time we say this, we are effectively asking someone to forget the important warnings and lessons from their own life history.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/sophiehannah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/flat-cactus-27.svg” _builder_version=”3.17.2″ max_width=”14%” module_alignment=”right”]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_signup aweber_list=”|none” mailchimp_list=”Divi Builder MailChimp|a80367e04a” title=”To make sure you hear all Sophie’s book news first, enter your email address here to join her mailing list:” button_text=”JOIN” form_field_background_color=”#ffdab5″ form_field_text_color=”#c4c4c4″ focus_text_color=”#000000″ disabled_on=”off|off|off” _builder_version=”3.16″ header_font=”||||||||” header_text_color=”#000000″ header_font_size=”24″ body_text_color=”#000000″ background_color=”#fcc57e” custom_button=”on” button_text_color=”#ffffff” button_bg_color=”#fe0000″ border_style=”solid” focus_border_color=”#ffffff” button_text_size__hover_enabled=”off” button_text_size__hover=”null” button_one_text_size__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_text_size__hover=”null” button_two_text_size__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_text_size__hover=”null” button_text_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_text_color__hover=”null” button_one_text_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_text_color__hover=”null” button_two_text_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_text_color__hover=”null” button_border_width__hover_enabled=”off” button_border_width__hover=”null” button_one_border_width__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_border_width__hover=”null” button_two_border_width__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_border_width__hover=”null” button_border_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_border_color__hover=”null” button_one_border_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_border_color__hover=”null” button_two_border_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_border_color__hover=”null” button_border_radius__hover_enabled=”off” button_border_radius__hover=”null” button_one_border_radius__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_border_radius__hover=”null” button_two_border_radius__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_border_radius__hover=”null” button_letter_spacing__hover_enabled=”off” button_letter_spacing__hover=”null” button_one_letter_spacing__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_letter_spacing__hover=”null” button_two_letter_spacing__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_letter_spacing__hover=”null” button_bg_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_bg_color__hover=”null” button_one_bg_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_bg_color__hover=”null” button_two_bg_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_bg_color__hover=”null” \/][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" GRUDGE OF THE WEEK #2 Every week, I’ll be sharing a new grudge that’s not in my book — sometimes mine, sometimes someone else’s (with their permission, obviously!) There are plenty of new grudges born every minute – send yours to grudgescanbegood@gmail.com if you would like to share it and have it analysed! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-how-to-hold-a-grudge"],"yoast_head":"\nOTHER GRUDGE GOODIES<\/h2>\n