Cheapskates rejoice! It’s Read Free Sunday (RFS) at The Diary.
It’s Sparrow, an average man passing an average life…
Saturday, July 8
Gina and I had a moderately funny moment when we reported for duty at the hotel…We had just entered the front desk from the back office and noticed there was one running shoe and the counter.
– Why is there a running shoe on the counter???
Gina had some zero clue, tho she noted it had been found in the hall.
– You’d think someone would notice that…
– Yeah, like immediately, too…I mean, you’re tying your shoe and BOOM, there’s only one…
For reference, Gina looked down at her own shoes, which was pretty funny.
– And if you’re walking, too…You might miss it then, too.
We picked up the shoe – a pretty New Balance running shoe – looked at it, and shrugged.
– The owner wouldn’t even need an ID…Just show us the other shoe and it’s theirs.
Usually, you don’t want lost and found (L&F) stuff visible at the front desk, but it’s graveyard and there won’t be too much traffic tonite and you gotta figure there’s a pretty good chance the shoe will be missed and someone might well come hobbling out to the front desk looking for it…(As it was, no one did, and we put the shoe in the back office later in the morning.)
Early on there was a walk-in who balked at $199, plus tax…He was an older, friendly, sort who reminded me a bit of Pa Sparrow, and when he said no we found ourselves determined to get him a room so before he was out the door we asked him how much he wanted to spend…This, of course, is a signal that ol’ Sparrow is looking to move some product but sir, you gotta work with me here…His answer was a lowball hundred bucks, not reasonable at all, and we countered with $150, plus tax, which he declined and then he asked what was going on in town to drive rates up so high and we trotted out the usual answer, it’s summer in a tourist area, there’s always something going on, declining to tell him the truth: that most shmucks like you will pay it.
Right after that, we got a call from the local battered spouses center (look, they’re not always women, tho they usually are) for a room for a victim…A couple of hours later a constable delivers her and her kid and we also ask him to check on an SUV that has been parked near the front door for a couple of hours, explaining that, you know, it’s the third decade of the 21st century and you don’t want to go knocking on windows at zero-dark-thirty willy nilly…The officer understands this and goes and shines his flashlight and reports it’s a couple of guys sleeping (probably the walk-in who turned us down) leaving it to me to decide whether to move them or not…Well, knowing how testy we get when we’re woken up when we don’t want to be, we waved it off, telling the officer we’ll deal with it later…(They later pulled out on their own just after sunrise.)
It was a lite but wonderful session in the gym tonite…We had a wonderful rest (see Sleep Log below), tho regular readers of this crap know last week we went to the gym after a decent sleep and were yawning and ended up not working out…So we waited after waking up at 1900, but we were still feeling refreshed at 1930, so we took our pre-workout stuff and headed in.
Now, we are not completely recovered for two extended periods awake (44 and 36ish hours) in the past eight days…Even a lite workout was a challenge on the tenth rep on the last set, but we felt strong and not weary for the first time in a while and we’ll take it.
Sparrow’s Sleep Log: 0830 Saturday until 1900 Saturday…10.5 hours for the day and 43.5 hours for the week, a mediocre total…We were up at 1500 to use the can and while nightmares of recent short sleep sessions (SSS) appeared, they were brief because there was no doubt: a patented Sparrow Roll Over (SRO) did its work splendidly…Indeed, the forecast is for routine weeks for the foreseeable future, and we’re looking forward to the sleep numbers returning to normal…We know you are, too.
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The Diary of a Nobody is a novel. All elements are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Anything else is a coincidence.
It was inspired by the 19th-century British novel of the same name.
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