Guest of the waterbed suite

[MinimaMagistra]

HA.

Me: Quick question, sir -Which room are you in?
SG (sketchy guy): What?
Me: Which room are you in, sir?
SG: I'm a guest in 158.
Me: 158?
SG: Yeah, I'm a guest in 158.
Me: No you're not.
SG: I'm not?
Me: No. No you're not. You're not a guest, here.
SG: ...Okay.

Far be it from me to help wanna-be breakfast scam artists, but our room numbers end at 37, each floor. If you're in 158, you're either in the pool or in the shrubs on the other side of the parking lot. My coworker's had folk say they're staying in room 423 or 514, what have you, where we only have three floors. NO.

[allniter]

Thank you. That post really made my day

[Mongo Skruddgemire]

Things you wish you could say.

"Room 158? Interesting. I thought the police arrested everyone in that suite last night for drug possession with intent to sell. If I can ask you to stand there while I call the police to let them know that one slipped through their net I'd appriciate it."

Watching them run in mortal terror of getting busted for drugs would be a hoot.

M

[Becks]

Mongo, you're evil. I like that.

Hopefully people will add that to their list(s) of things to do/say on their last day.

[Sliceanddice]

Mongo you are wonderful. Oh and haha people need to learn before they scam

[MinimaMagistra]

What's saddest is that if they did the minimal amount of RESEARCH beforehand, I'd very. Rarely. Catch them. They're all outside-access doors, so they could friggin' just walk along to see which rooms look occupied.

I had this one creepy @$%@ who smelled to high heaven, but could list the room number and the name of the person on the room. Said it was in his wife's name. Coworker caught him walking down the road after boosting some food, so the next time he came in, I told him that he would have to bring his wife in with her ID and room key before I would let him get food. He was scooping out cereal into a bowl AS I WAS SAYING he wasn't allowed to get breakfast. Finally scooted him out, enduring his accusations of racism ("You wouldn't question me if I was white! I want you to ask the next person who comes in here for THEIR card! YOU ASK THEM!" Man, I would ask you if you were white and still as sketchy-looking and smelly as you are. I don't think that would've gotten me any points), and never heard from him again.

Also, the SO suggests that threatening their health might work better than threatening their legal status. "158? Ooh, we weren't supposed to put anybody in 158. That's the room with the old asbestos! You... you should get yourself to the hospital, man."