I work at a hotel that’s attached to a casino. I’m a reservations agent & receptionist. Although I do get to talk to a lot of people - I really don’t see many of them because our office is in a location where we’re surrounded by other offices. In fact, the only window that we have a view from is in the front desk manager’s office. And when she’s not there & the door’s closed - half the time we don’t know if the sun’s shining or we’re in the middle of a blizzard.
There are times when we do have to venture out of our “dungeon” to the other offices or the Hotel front desk. One situation came up today where I needed to talk to the supervisor who happened to be working the front desk.
When I came out the door, there was a woman standing at the counter in front of her. She was apparently checking in. As I came out the door, I heard the woman saying to the supervisor, “Well, we came up here to play in the snow, but there isn’t any snow!” Gotta tell ya, I’ve worked at my job for 14 years & I could tell by the tone of her voice…..nope, I didn’t need to hear “No Mo”!!! So, I merely turned on my heal & headed right back out the door!
There are times when we do have to venture out of our “dungeon” to the other offices or the Hotel front desk. One situation came up today where I needed to talk to the supervisor who happened to be working the front desk.
When I came out the door, there was a woman standing at the counter in front of her. She was apparently checking in. As I came out the door, I heard the woman saying to the supervisor, “Well, we came up here to play in the snow, but there isn’t any snow!” Gotta tell ya, I’ve worked at my job for 14 years & I could tell by the tone of her voice…..nope, I didn’t need to hear “No Mo”!!! So, I merely turned on my heal & headed right back out the door!
I swear, after this many years - just when I think “I’ve heard ’em all!”…..another person opens their mouth & proves just how wrong I am!
Now, don’t get me wrong, I really do like my job & I love talking to all kinds of people all day long! But, there seems to be a chosen few who kind of “deviate from the norm”, if ya know what I mean. And lately I’ve given in to fantasizing about what I would REALLY like to say to some of them! And while I’m thinking about it - I find that I also tend to make up my own names for them too. I pegged her as a “Snow Bunny”. For instance, since this gal was young, blond (Yep! Sorry!) and clearly not dressed to “play in the snow”. At least not in the UP. She wasn’t wearing either a snowmobile suit or sub-zero Carhartts. She really didn’t look like the type to be pushing a snow-blower, or using a snow shovel. And I wouldn't have pegged her as a “musher” either. She looked more like a cat-lover to me.
In the 16 years since I’ve lived in the UP, I’ve seen a lot of snow. But in the middle of March, the weather has fluctuated to such extremes that whatever snow we have left is striated with layers alternating between a mixture of melted snow, salt, sand & plain dirt.
At this point I’m thinking she must have been misdirected when she booked her reservations on-line. Maybe when she clicked on the “snow” icon - she accidentally clicked on the “Sault Ste. Marie” site, when she really meant to choose the “Vail” one instead! And - I really wanted to scream at her - “What do ya mean - No Snow?!!! Where’s your sense of adventure?! Just get out there, scrape off the top inch or so of dirt, hop on that Polaris & open her up! Come on - there’s still at least 1 ½ to 2 feet of the stuff out there!” I could even have told her about my trip in to work when I passed the snowmobile trail & there were about 7 or 8 snowmobiles still trying to get the most out of it.
Of course I would have left out the fact that, as I passed by the college (Lake Superior State University), I noticed a male student at the cross-walk in shorts & wearing FLIP FLOPS!!!!!!! I just figured that since the temps. were still in the low 30’s - he was still caught up in his Spring Break fantasy!Here I was hoping for some really warm weather to melt the (four-letter-word) stuff….hey - I was gonna say SNOW!!! And Ms. Hare comes along & expects the Hotel management to comp her whole stay, including meals. Then - after she found out that the Casino has a free shuttle to & from the airport (which is 30 miles away) , she tried to find a way to get the rental car company to issue a credit to her credit card & pick up the vehicle which she’d parked in the hotel lot.
Hmm….at this point, I’m thinking about some really old TV, cop, whodonit show that used to be on when I was a kid. They had a classic saying at the start of each episode that went -
“There are a thousand stories in the naked city. And this…. is just one of them.”
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