Hotelling

Don't you know the feeling when something happens that you should and could technically have prevented, but didn't because you sometimes take the regulations too lightly? Tonight I understood why taking things lightly can sometimes cause you trouble. Not like I haven't experienced it many times before, but still. It's fucking annoying when it happens. 

The annual staff christmas party came and went without huge incidents. But as these events has a tendency to do, it got me thinking. I quickly stopped thinking when I realized I had a pounding hangover, but after I calmed down and slept a bit, I restarted thinking. And that's when it struck me, that despite it's fairly lame setup, it was actually fun. Lots of other characteristics in the people we work with are revealed when you see them 'on the outside'. 

When writing part I in the early hours of yesterday morning, I didn't think I'd have fresh material for part II this soon. I thought I'd have to dip into the vault of amusing anecdotes for future posts. But this story is just too far out to not tell while it's fresh in my memory. It started not two weeks ago...

Ok, might not be as grim an entry as the title promises. But still, being up while every normal person sleep, somestimes means you'll get to experience the not quite as normal people shine like glorious stars in the night.

You get asked all kinds of questions from all kinds of people working in the hotelling business. 90% of the questions have obvious answers that people could figure out in less time than it took them to ask it in the first place. If only they actually realized that just because you pay for a hotel room, doesn't mean you automatically have people doing ALL your thinking. 9% of the questions are the same as each other, and are what you can expect from people staying at a hotel. Tell me how to find my way to this and that, how much is your currency exchange rates and can I exchange here, is it possible, can I, would you etc. etc. It's standard, and you just set your brain on standby and let the conversation unfold by itself when these bright stars roll around. 

But once in a blue moon you get that rare breed of guests. That diamond in the ro... no not really a diamond. Just.. a rock in the rough. A guest that takes you by surprise by asking a question you hadn't anticipated in a million years. Today, one such guest visited my hotel, and I just so happened to be the lucky guy she asked. The question? Steady on now, friend. Let me give you some more back story first. Do read on!