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Kevin Fischer is an award-winning veteran broadcaster who has been seen and heard on Milwaukee TV and radio stations for nearly three decades.
Kevin, who is a legislative aide to state Sen. Mary Lazich (R-New Berlin), can be seen offering his views on the news on the public affairs program, “INTERchange,” on Milwaukee Public Television Channel 10. He lives with his wife, Jennifer, in Franklin.
The hotel bathrobe controversy
By Kevin Fischer
Saturday, Jul 28 2007, 07:48 AM
During the last hour of my program on WISN Friday filling in for Mark Belling, I took a lot of calls on the Wall Street Journal article on hotel guests who insist on wearing bathrobes in every part of the building.
The article demonstrates a sentiment I’ve had for some time: America is becoming far too casual, has lost a lot of class, and is turning into a nation of slobs.
A few of the article’s highlights:
Lisa Peterson, 46 years old, says the main reason she sports a robe in public is because "it alerts the world that I am in relaxation mode and that I am pampering myself because I believe I'm worth it." But the communications director for the American Kennel Club, who lives in Newtown, Conn., says it also makes her feel "a little bit naughty." Ms. Peterson says she found it particularly fun to slither past families in their Sunday finest in the restaurant at the Spa at Norwich Inn, in Norwich, Conn., on Mother's Day, freshly oiled from a deep-tissue massage and on her way to the hot tub.
For brides who hope to be the only ones in white, getting married at hotels is an increasingly risky proposition. Uninvited robed guests have been spotted among wedding guests in hotels from the Crowne Plaza in Clayton, Mo., to the Boston Park Plaza Hotel & Towers. Amy MacNeill, an event planner in Atlanta, says it's something to consider when choosing locations. At a wedding she put on recently at a small hotel in Roswell, Ga., two hotel guests and their child wandered into the reception's buffet area in robes -- the woman with a towel wrapped around her head -- and proceeded to help themselves to food. Luckily, she says, the bride and groom were on the dance floor, oblivious, but the groom's mother was "a little antsy about the whole thing" and complained to the hotel.Read the
entire article, it’s very good.
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