An American in Paris: Part VI

"Miser Brothers"
1975 was a good year for the Miser brothers. The Rankin-Bass hit, "A Year Without a Santa Claus" had just come out the Christmas before and they were on top of the world! Well, actually, Snow Miser split his time between the North and South poles and Heat Miser had the equator. Like most people, the fame soon got to them. Heat Miser did time in jail for beating his girlfriend Chiquita Banana. He lost his temper one night after somebody commented on her melons. Snow Miser became addicted to drugs - ice to be specific. He couldn't get enough of the stuff.
Eventually, the brothers went to rehab and worked through their demons. Today, they lead low-profile lives and work the front desk of a Paris hotel. Snow Miser works the day shift and Heat Miser works at night. Yep. Or at least that's how I explain the temperature in our room.
When I first got to Paris, Steve had a run-of-the-mill room in a Marriott by the airport. It was nice and looked like any other hotel room in the U.S. Once we were on "our" time, we had reservations at a Best Western in town. The room was quaint (realtor talk for small) but clean and it suited us fine.

We had a quiet room on the second floor off a small courtyard. We knew we would spend much time in the room so we weren't too concerned about it.

That held true except for the heat and air. Many hotels didn't even have air conditioning, so we were glad to have it, but there was no thermostat in the room. We were told the front desk controlled it. Well, during the day, apparently it was ON. It was so cold, you could have hung meat! So I went to bed with my PJs and my socks on with the blanket pulled up to my neck. I awoke a few hours later sweating like a Biggest Loser contestant hiking up a hill with Jillian on my back! Apparently, during the night, the air is OFF. I stripped off the covers and my PJs to get some relief. I enacted the fine, Southern tradition of flipping my pillow over to the cool side.

This temperature trauma was repeated for Sunday and Monday nights as well.

As for the Miser brothers...they had a deal in the works with E! to make a "True Hollywood Story," but then the shit hit the fan with Jon and Kate and, well, I don't expect their phone to be ringing anytime soon.