Alan Holden Realty

Vacations on Holden Beach, NC: Funny Stories....

I was thinking about what to write about today. As I was looking out the window thinking (I wish is was about 80 degrees and sunny). Well....we have the sunny part down to a science but the air temps just don't cut it on the thermometer. The sun is shining and the air temp is hovering around 25 degrees. This got me thinking about the summer days and some of the funny things we have had happen in this business. I know that when a few of you read these things you will think "What is so funny about that?" And that is ok! But to people who have lived here our entire lives, it is really funny because these stories make us look at things with an entirely different viewpoint. Back in the mid-1980's when Alan Holden Vacations was known as Alan Holden Realty, we had a lady come into our office that was highly upset about something. She came in and was telling us about how her North Carolina vacation was ruined and her views of the ocean were ruined etc. She never came out and said "My beach trip is ruined because....." She just went on and one about how she has waited her entire life to come to the beach and now it is ruined. To make a long story very short, she finally said these exact words,"My first beach experience is ruined because those shrimp boats offshore are ruining my view!" We tried will all our power to explain to her that the shrimp boats are "the view". She was not satisfied and wanted us to call them shrimpers and ask them to move out of the way." How do you explain that is does not work that way.....??? Another funny story is about mosquitoes. Everyone knows that in the dead of summer mosquitoes are sometimes annoying right before dark. Especially if there has been a lot of rain two or three weeks before. If there is not a lot of wind at night, we humans are prime hunting material for mosquitoes. This story happened many years ago also. We had a phone call from a lady who had checked in several days earlier and was upset. We asked her what was wrong and she complained to us that the mosquitoes were eating her up while she sat on the porch watching the sunsets in the evenings. She asked us if we could do something about them? If we could not, she wanted all of her rental money back. We explained to the customer that we can't control things such as mosquitoes. She told us to call someone to take care of the problem. We had an instance of a renter who called before they came to the beach.

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