You are banned. You go bye bye.

[bhskittykatt]

So last night, apparently one of our rooms got trashed. There was a large hole punched into the wall, the toilet got clogged, there was lots of trash everywhere...I know I'm missing something but the hole and the toilet were the two big things. So we put the SC on the ban list, and all was well.

This guy comes in tonight. I've never seen him before, but red flags are going up everywhere.

SC: "Yeah, I need another room last night. I was here last night and I just wanted to say there were crack pipes and needles in the room and..."
Me: "Wait, did you tell anyone about it?"
SC: "No, we were tired, and..."

Okay, red alarm 1: SC claims he found a syringe in the room and said nothing about it? Yeah, BS. I don't care how tired you are. If it's a little dirty, okay, maybe you won't say anything. Once, I found porn in a room I checked into, and I didn't say anything 'cause Hubs and I were all "yay porn!" (Though I would have said something if it was sticky porn, 'cause that's nasty, but in our case it was like almost new porn so we were okay with it). But a needle? Yeah, anyone in their right mind would be saying something immediately. I sure as hell would. And I probably wouldn't be returning to the same place the next night.

Me: "What's the name?"
SC: "SC"

I had a suspicion, but I looked it up, and sure enough, it was the SC we banned that day. Hmm...now what tipped me off, seeing as I'd never met SC before?

Me: "I'm sorry, but due to past experience, I cannot rent to you."
SC: "Past experience? Based on last night?" Who, me?
Me: "What room was it?"
SC: "[trashed room]"
Me: "Yeah, probably because you punched a hole in the wall."
SC: "A hole in the wall? The only hole in the wall is from that stupid door stop not working!" *makes a gesture of a door handle slamming into a wall*

Now, while I haven't seen the damage, Maint Man has indicated the hole is far bigger than what a door handle can make. Also, it's not located where a door handle could make it.

Me: "Also, the toilet was clogged, and the room was generally severely trashed. So you can't stay here tonight. Or ever, really."
SC: "This is ridiculous!"

I tried to respond with "I definitely agree", but by that time SC had stormed out of my office.

Yeah, sorry, not buying your story. From the get-go, he was basically trying to argue anything wrong with that room was like that when he checked in. I called BS. SC got mad. I don't care, because SC went away, so I am now content.

[Pixilated]

That's unbelievable, that he would come back and try to rent another room from you!

[DGoddessChardonnay]

That's unbelievable, that he would come back and try to rent another room from you!

Oh yeah, people ARE that stupid. The SC in the OP is like that young boy who crashed his car a few weeks ago into the beauty shop across from my house.

Bad enough he (and his passenger) fled from the scene on foot, but then Bright Bulb decided to walk back up to the scene of the accident - while the police and fire units were still there - with Daddy in tow.

Nevermind the cops already had the evidence - they had the plate number and ran it so they knew it belonged to Daddy. Even Daddy's argument of "My boy wouldn't do that" held as much water as a boat with a giant hole in the bottom. Cops cuffed and stuffed him (Bright Bulb, not the Daddy) into the back of a patrol car and took him on a ride downtown.


So yeah, I'm totally convinced now that there are no limits to human stupidity.

[downforit2008]

Glad that you put that SC in his place! That's one less moron to try and get a room for the night from now on.

[bankworking]

Don't you wish there was a way to make the SC have to clean up their own mess in the room... and THEN be banned?

[taxguykarl]

That's unbelievable, that he would come back and try to rent another room from you!

Of course, he hadn't thrashed every room yet.

[Laund-o-rama Mama]

There's a certain strain of SC who think that people in the office don't know shit about what's going on. When I managed a dry cleaning office, I couldn't believe the amount of SCs who'd try to get one over on me by being super nice/acting dumb. Look in their notes and they've made our storefront personnel and drivers' lives HELL.

What, do they think the office never talks to the drivers or retail employees??

[ackmeow]

I'm curious as to what was going on in his mind. Did he really think he could get away with it? -Wait, that's a stupid question. *Snerk*