Extra room means, in part, giving arguments
to unlikely voices, voices that may not
have had the arguments at their disposal that they needed.
And in this next case, I imagine, the owners of a hotel
making a case for your custom.
From the Cove Hotel--
if you value justice, you want to choose our hotel,
though it's ranked only fourth best among the dozen hotels
on the bay and its rates are the same as the one ranked first,
justice because we pay our workers more nearly what
they deserve, which is almost twice the salaries others
offer.
That's the reason we can't afford the extra help required
to keep the kitchen open for late night orders.
That's why if you need extra towels after 05:00 PM,
when the housekeeping staff goes home,
you're invited to help yourself from the linen closet
by the vending machines on the second floor.
That's why there isn't a gym, or a steam room, and all the money
we save by our location, half a mile from the beach,
in beachfront taxes, is passed on
to the people who serve you with care, with courtesy.
Are you ready to help them by taking in stride an easy 10
minute walk past the modest storefronts, where they tend
to shop, to a beach as clean as the beaches of hotels
where a walk from room to ocean, takes 10 seconds?
Wouldn't you say there's something a little desperate
about needing one's pleasures to be immediate, about straining
so hard to escape the world that our workers inhabit
all day as they earn a living, ample enough for a few
of the extras in life and a few of the higher necessities?
We're proud that our cook has a daughter in law school.
If you choose our hotel, you become her sponsor,
a woman so impressed by our paying her father more
than the market requires, that she's
planning to urge her clients to focus first
on the option of reaching a settlement out of court
by an appeal to conscience.
It's in that spirit that we're making this appeal to yours.