Article: Hotel Guest Pays Bill After 24 Years


AP Online
10-28-2004
Dateline: OSLO, Norway
After putting up with pangs of conscience for 24 years, a Norwegian finally settled a hotel bill he skipped out on in 1980.

The Clarion Hotel Ernst in the southern town of Kristiansand received a handwritten anonymous letter of apology with a 500 kroner note ($80) attached, hotel director Kay Johnsen said by telephone Thursday.

"I've never seen anything like it," said Johnsen, who has been in the hotel business for more than 20 years.

The note said the sender had stayed at the hotel in the autumn of 1980, had some sandwiches and ...

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