{"id":3342,"date":"2009-07-31T10:26:17","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T08:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=3342"},"modified":"2009-07-31T10:26:17","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T08:26:17","slug":"clouds-villa-sweet-and-hermanus-traffic-sour-service-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/cape-town\/clouds-villa-sweet-and-hermanus-traffic-sour-service-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Clouds Villa Sweet and Hermanus Traffic Sour Service Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Sweet Service Award <\/strong>goes to\u00a0Petro Immelman of Clouds\u00a0Villa on the Helshoogte Pass in Stellenbosch, for allowing a fellow guest house owner to stay over due to a requirement to be in Stellenbosch for an 8h00 appointment the following day.\u00a0\u00a0 She refused to accept payment for the accommodation.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>The Sour Service Award <\/strong>goes to the Traffic department in Hermanus.\u00a0 On the Saturday morning before the planned Municipal strike a visitor to Hermanus was passed by two reckless drivers driving towards Hermanus, at a speed of 180 km per hour, or more.\u00a0 The Traffic department was called, and the officer on duty made it clear that his department does not work on weekends.\u00a0 He was questioned about his view in reacting to a\u00a0potentially life-threatening situation, and he was then prepared to take the registration numbers, and\u00a0said that he would look them up on the computer.\u00a0 He took his time, and seemed completely disinterested\u00a0in sending out a patrol car to stop these two drivers.\u00a0\u00a0 While the municipal strike was only due to start two days later, and may not apply to essential services, of which traffic control is one,\u00a0 it appeared that the traffic officer was already on a go-slow!<\/p>\n

The WhaleTales Sweet & Sour Service Awards<\/strong>\u00a0are presented every Friday on the WhaleTales blog.\u00a0 Nominations for the Sweet and Sour Service Awards can be sent to Chris von Ulmenstein at info@whalecottage.com<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Past winners of the Sweet and Sour Service Awards can be read on the Friday posts of this blog, and in the WhaleTales <\/span><\/strong>newsletters on the www.whalecottage.com<\/a> website.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Sweet Service Award goes to\u00a0Petro Immelman of Clouds\u00a0Villa on the Helshoogte Pass in Stellenbosch, for allowing a fellow guest house owner to stay over due to a requirement to be in Stellenbosch for an 8h00 appointment the following day.\u00a0\u00a0 She refused to accept payment for the accommodation.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 The Sour Service Award goes to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[3,124,75,248,31,21],"tags":[1757,32378,1756,1688,32377,1755,1758,32376,862,828,10],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t