' What is the meaning of this?'
' I was only trying this door. I thought this was the - ah- mop room. I was looking for a mop.'
' What do you mean you were looking for a mop?'
' Well - ah.'
And I stepped up and said, ' One of the men puked in the hall upstairs. We have to mop it up.'
' This is not the mop room. This is my room. Another incident like this and I'll have you fellows investigated and thrown out! Do you understand me clearly?'
' A fellow puked upstairs,' I said.
Jack Kerouac " On the Road"
' I was only trying this door. I thought this was the - ah- mop room. I was looking for a mop.'
' What do you mean you were looking for a mop?'
' Well - ah.'
And I stepped up and said, ' One of the men puked in the hall upstairs. We have to mop it up.'
' This is not the mop room. This is my room. Another incident like this and I'll have you fellows investigated and thrown out! Do you understand me clearly?'
' A fellow puked upstairs,' I said.
Jack Kerouac " On the Road"