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Tales from the Hotel Front Desk

If you're a regular reader of HotelChatter you probably know about our love for the Crazy Hotel Workers, where hotel staff and employees bitch about their jobs.

We also just love hotel staff stories because we know they have seen some crazy stuff. Today we found a magazine called 400 Words which publishes " short-short nonfiction...for people with short attention spans" and one of today's stories happens to be about a former hotel front desk clerk in Washington D.C.

Instead of dishing on her coworkers' sexual lives, Lisa instead talked about where her coworkers came from. Like Huang from Cambodia who worked as the hotel doorman.

Huang would do anything for a guest to get a tip--iron a shirt, run an errand. He once helped an old lady trim her toenails. Of course he was supposed to be at the front door and bringing in luggage, but I didn't mind covering for him. In six months he saved $18,000 and bought a new Toyota Cressida. It was a good-looking car until he had it painted like a Diamond cab. One Sunday night, the hotel manager popped in unexpectedly, and Huang had taken a guest to the airport. I couldn't explain that one away, and he got fired.

Good thing he painted his car to look like a taxi because he had an instant back-up employment plan. Another memorable thing that Lisa encountered as a front desk clerk? Mikhail Baryshnikov who was short, handsome and angry when she had to tell him the restaurant was closed for the night.

As for what hotel this is, Lisa said it was close to the Kennedy Center which means it could be any of these hotels on this list. Although, we suspect Mikhail would not stay at a Wyndham.

Our money is on the Hay Adams which is a small but luxurious hotel perfect for the famous people headed to the Kennedy Center.

[Photo: JimNTexas]

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