“Hi, are you checking out?” The young woman asks the man
standing in line. “Uh, yes. Yes I am.” He replies while rummaging through his
coat for his wallet. The woman types away on her keyboard behind the front
desk. The man stealthily places his room keys on the counter.
“Okay, that will be $244 sir.”
The man goes pale while taking a step back, “Excuse me?? Are
you serious. I already paid for this room, and on top of that it should be no
more than…”
“I understand your complaint sir, but the maids just updated
the status of your room.”
“STATUS OF MY ROOM?
What do you mean?” The man rest both his forearms on the counter with a look of
disgust.
“It says her that they suspected you bringing a dog into
your room, when it clearly states that we carry a no-pet policy, sir.”
He looks up with a silly laugh, “Look, I never brought a dog
to my room – hell, I don’t even have a dog to put in my room. What is giving
the maids the idea that I brought a dog into the room?”
“They smelt urine in the bathroom, sir.”
The man mouths the words ‘urine-in-the-bathroom’ to himself silently. “It’s a bathroom…”
“They found it in the shower, sir.”
The man stops himself from continuing with his rage speech
and thinks to himself while the woman at the front desk continues typing.
“Well…there might have been…”
“Sir, are you saying that you did or did not have a dog?”
The man suddenly looks behind sees just how much the line has grown. Someone catches his glance and yells out, “C’mon man, hurry up! Just fess
up. We’ve all done it before. I got a plane to catch.”
He turns back around and leans in while speaking under his
breath, “…I uhh….did it.”
“I’m sorry sir, what was that?”
“There was no dog, please waive the charges because….I did
it.”
“Sir, you’re going to have to….”
“I DID IT! I WENT IN THE SHOWER, ALRIGHT?” The man
abruptly shouts out to the line behind him. The woman at the desk behind him
leans in, “Sir, are you alright? You don’t need to yell.”
