Well it’s Saturday and I leave El Fawlty Towers for the cruise.
I was woken early, which was a good thing, by Don Basil and his sidekick – El Sidekick – knocking on the door. There had been a slight commotion in the night as drunk revellers outside on the street had been water bombed from an overlooking window of El Fawlty Towers.
It happened at around 4 o’clock in the morning after the drunks had been shouting at the top of their voices and waking the neighbourhood generally.
It has become a craze of the local teenagers to water bomb each other ever since the Chinese owned souvenir shop near the hotel started to sell packets of water bombs. These are basically just small balloons with large self sealing spouts that stretch over a tap for filling. Easy … fill and fling.
Well, someone had the idea to teach this group of drunks a lesson. It is the same group who have been rowdy the past few nights when the club opposite has turned out at 4 in the morning.
Well, it appears this crowd of drink sodden guys ended up both drunk and sodden. Tempers flared, police were called, all calmed down, wet drunks went home, people slept .
Now it was Don Basil and El Sidekick, early the next morning, trying to find the culprits after promising the police he would attempt to do so. He had come up with a pretty good plan as well actually. Bearing in mind he couldn’t really get an anglepoise lamp out to question anyone as in this hotel none would have any bulbs in, he devised another way. He had El Sidekick empty the small rubbish bins in each room to look for the packaging the water bombs came in. Clever eh? He was pleased with the idea until it resulted in no packaging at all. His face showed his disappointment. After all it was pretty clever to think that anyone in a small hotel room would just, naturally, slip the packaging in the bin and think no more of it.
It was a shame to see him down.
If he had only had El Sidekick check the back, left hand zippered pocket of a black Nike carry on holdall he would probably have had a result!
Off to join the ship!