Memoirs from the Flophouse
You see EVERYTHING working at a hotel and here are a few good recent ones.
1. When one guys comforter got wet, he decided to hang it off the 15th floor balcony to dry it off! As if this wasn’t funny enough, he then said the wind picked up and blew it off! So we went looking for it, on the roof, in the street and it is nowhere to be found. We are talking about an inch-thick, 8 foot by 10 foot comforter, and the guy says it just blew away into the sky, lol. What really happened? Probably the guy burned it with a cigarrett, threw it in the trash shoot, and then made up this story so he wouldn’t have to pay for it.
2. An irrate woman approaches me right outside my hotel babbling in German with a few english words mixed in. As I’m trying to understand her, she just marches away mid-sentence, and goes up to a Japanese group straight off the tour bus yelling “Spieken ze doich?!” (do you speak German?) These people speak hardly a word of English let alone anything else, so it’s funny this German woman is asking them of all people. I get her to come inside and through some detective work, I find her hotel. I call her a cab and tell her, sherades style, to stay until the cab comes. She says “Ok! Ok!” and sits down. Not 2 minutes later, I’m busy with a phone call when I see her out of the corner of my eye marching down the street again! After running after her, I decide to wait outside with her until the cab shows up, because I don’t want anything on my consience if she takes off and something bad happens. That and I’m just an old softy when it comes to old people 
3. Imagine one lady who has a lot of big heavy luggage with her on vacation. Lets say 3 bags, and you have to lug them around. Kind of annoying right? Now imagine a family of 4 with 12 bags you have to drag around. Rolling your eyes and swearing under your breath right?
Well, today a huge group from a cruise ship and a group of about 50 Japanese tourists showed up simultaniously early in the morning when none of the rooms were ready, so I had to store them all in the back. The bell room filled up, then the back office filled up, then the breakroom filled up, and eventually I even had to store a few in the breakroom bathroom! When it was all over, I counted two hundred and six pieces of luggage I had just stored in the back for them! At an average weight of 20 pounds, I just lifted 4,160 pounds! It was pretty much 5 straight hours of strenuous work. In my 6 months working here, I’ve never seen that many bags needing to be stored in the back before.
I got a kick out of these stories. You should post more of these…Those Japanese folks and their luggage. Maybelle has that gene. The one that makes you pack a 50 pound suitcase for a weekend trip.
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March 18th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
I agree with the comment above. Funny stuff happens all the time. Makes for a great read.
Don’t stop!
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March 18th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
That was seriously funny! The one about the German lady was written in a way that I felt like I was there… cuz I was rolling my eyes too!
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March 19th, 2008 at 6:42 am