There was "Harrys New Life Hotel" in Thailand... You check in with your money, your bags, and your life.. you check out when any two are gone..
On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 8:00 PM, archer75--- via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Are there any affordable American spas where one can spend a week getting > rejunenated? > There are plenty of "day spas", at least around here, but I don't recall > seeing longer term spas advertised anywhere. > > (Caution! Long, and possibly boring tale, follows:) > > A hundred years ago there were many multi-day spas. French Lick Springs, > Indiana was so popular, the Southern Railway built a spur line to it just > to haul the spa customers back and forth to the main line. Father worked on > that short haul line back then. > The springs company bottled its mineral water, Pluto, that was a pretty > strong laxative. Father drank a half bottle every month until the day he > died at 94. > > In college, we lived in an old army building that had been divided into > two apartments. > The newly married student next door was an excitable architectural student > who became asthmatic when he was upset about something. The day before a > major biology test, he knocked on the adjoining door and ask if I had any > asthma medicine. > I gave him a bottle of the "Biloxi Prescription", a popular asthma > medicine, and a bottle of Pluto Water since I didn't have any saline > laxative that was supposed to be taken with the prescription. I told him to > drink only half the bottle of Pluto water. > > A half hour later there was a tremendous banging on the adjoining door. > He burst in and yelled, "Gerry! Are you trying to kill me? Whoops!, and he > ran back in his apartment. > Five minutes later he was back with more yelling, and then another Whoops! > and he was gone again. > The third time he stayed long enough to tell me that he had drunk the > "whole" bottle of Pluto water. > Nonetheless, it relieved his asthma and he passed the test. > He finally flunked architecture, switched to education and became a very > good primary school teacher. > Gerry > > > Wilton. > > Thanks for the kudo. I really need a week in a spa. > > Fred. > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
