Jumble Spoiler – 05/01/10

Visual Description:  Tired travelers dealing with an inattentive clerk.

LERED  =  ELDER,  REGUP  =  PURGE,  ICETOX  =  EXOTIC,  INCLEP  =  PENCIL   —   Giving us:  EDRPUEOCPCI

Clue/Question:  When they asked for a room,  the (rude) hotel clerk was . . .

Answer:  PREOCCUPIED

(Clue words not so difficult today, but the scrambling of the answer letters was good.  I’d like to see this clerk get fired.  Far too many clerks and cashiers – what-have-yous – are so self-centered, so filled with this false sense of entitlement, that they’ve turned the customer is always right into the customer has no right to bother my lazy ass.) — YUR