Wednesday, August 20, 2008
hotel rwanda
so i was at the front desk of the Holiday Inn i am staying at because i needed a plastic fork for my dinner. Upon arrival at the desk, I stumbled across a scene that makes me glad i never had a job in which i had to deal with customer complaints. So apparently this guy had money on his nightstand, which was gone when he got back to his room. Apparently, the cleaning people took the money. It's reasons like this why once i first get into my room after checking in, i immediately place the "do not disturb" sign on my door handle for the remainder of the stay so that i'm the only one entering my room evar. So the lady behind the counter was explaining how the cleaning staff sometimes receive tips from the guests if they do such a good job, so the cleaning lady probably thought it was a tip. i personally think that to offer this excuse is kinda bad on the hotel's part. There is no reason for the cleaning staff to take anything from your room except used towels, dirty sheets and trash. If something else is for them to take, there would be a note on it saying "for cleaning staff." But anyway, this is where it gets fun. Apparently, the money that was taken, was just quarters. But these weren't just any normal quarters. they were specific state quarters that this guy was collecting. so in other words, they were just normal quarters. And this guy was legitimately upset about these quarters being missing. He had laid them out on his nightstand in some kind of order and everything. So the hotel lady was asking him what state quarters they were so that they could try to reimburse him. and he was naming all these states - california, texas, new york.... and i was standing there thinking, "New York? that state quarter came out so long ago. you could get that anywhere. If he doesn't have that one by now, he must not be a very good collector." He would die if he ever saw my quarter collection book. I'm sooo cool!
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Yeah he sounds like a really lame state quarter collector. Way lamer than all the other people who collect state quarters. Hotel staff should only assume money left in the room is theirs if you have checked out.
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