It’s Read Free Sunday (RFS) at The Diary.
It’s Sparrow, an average man passing an average life…
Saturday, June 19
The big news is there was a fight in the lobby Thursday night…Amy said it was a pretty good one, too, with cops coming and people being kicked out and there’s a new policy in place prohibiting the consumption of intoxicants in the lobby…There was video coverage available on the monitor in the back changing/storage/server room in the back office, but yours truly has seen – and broken up – sufficient hotel lobby fights over the years to no longer be thrilled by them.
Boy, the new nite auditor ain’t doing squat…To wit: the shredder hadn’t been emptied since I did Wednesday morning…It was jammed to the brim, the contents plainly pushed down 17 times, so much so you couldn’t have put one more shred in there.
Further to wit: there were, literally, two key packets available when yours truly went to process registration cards for the day’s arrivals…Hell, that’s not enuff to even get started, and I ended up making a bunch, enuff to last for a couple-three days.
And, needless to say, the sundry stand was all but bare…Now, part of this was due to the fact we aren’t completely stocked with replacement product, but still, it was plain it had not been paid attention to in ages.
There was some question early on as to whether we were sold out or not…Amy had declined to tell me and I forgot to ask but the vacant/clean room report I’d run said only 206 was vacant/clean and it was reserved for the lone remaining arrival, so when a young lady came in asking if we had anything, I was obliged to tell her no…This caused her to start weeping…I am not making that up and there was some zero clue why…Maybe she was ordered to produce a room under penalty of death or maybe this was her first time facing a night of homelessness, but she was starting in on a nice, childish tantrum as she walked out.
Later, tho, I was reviewing the History and Forecast report and there were only 116 rooms occupied and we have 117 rooms…So I ran a check of all vacant rooms and 106 was listed as dirty…Well, this demanded investigation because housekeeping would not leave a room dirty on a busy night and there wasn’t anything in the logbook as to why it would be listed as dirty…The only thing to do is to go investigate, so I went and made entry and found the bed made and the can clean and no reason why the room shouldn’t be rented, but there were no takers the rest of the night.
About 0200 I get a call from a guest who’s in the parking lot and not finding a space…I mentioned there was overflow parking near the back of the restaurant but he says that’s too far to walk and wonders if he can park near some motorcycles that don’t appear to be observing traditional parking rules…Sure, I told him, park wherever you can, as long it’s not blocking anyone, adding I never check the parking lot anyway, so if he’s not in anyone’s way, he won’t be towed…He sounded relieved.
Ol’ Sparrow is the proud owner of a new teddy bear…Last week I found a green dinosaur at the business center workstations…It was sad because this likely met a kid is without their teddy bear, so I took it into the back office, hoping against hope it would be claimed in the morning…It wasn’t, and so the following day I put a note on it heralding I would claim it Friday if it was still here.
It was…I’d hate to see it thrown out, or claimed by someone other than me, so I brought it home…Yours truly is a teddy bear guy (TBG), so it’s important it has a good forever home.
Sparrow’s Sleep Log: 0900 Saturday until 2130 Saturday…A triumphant, man-sized 12.5 hours for the day and 49.0 hours for the week, a fabulous total after the slow start to the sleep week…It was so long the cat even came in to check on me from time to time, wondering when Daddy was going to get up.
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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