Need a Towel? No Need to Buy One

Dear Diary:

While visiting New York recently, I was waiting for a friend in the lobby of a hotel and overheard the following conversation between two matinee-lady types as they looked in the window of the gift shop. (The additional letters indicate how long the first woman held the words’ vowels.)

Woman No. 1: “They have muuuuugs. And tooowwwels.”
Woman No. 2: “Everything you can take from your room.”

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