Fuck the state fair!

[xmas74]

I hate the state fair. It's like a white trash version of Vegas and Disneyland all rolled up together. Dumb f*ckers bitchin' and moanin' about how much a motel room runs for and how much gas costs while they cram funnel cakes, corn dogs and fried Twinkies down their gullets.
Today I cleaned 40 motel rooms. Forty rooms that had been inhabited by the fair-going freaks. Forty rooms of wall-to-wall vomit, dog shit and flat beer.
Just a word of advice for ya'll. If you leave your porn collection in your room when you check out and you are easily embarrassed, don't call back and act all cute over the phone. I'll call you out on it every single time. "Yes, you were in room 305? You left some magazines in there? But Reverend, all I found were back issues of Big Jugs and a used vibrator. Could that be yours?" (Real phone call from this afternoon, in case you think I'm joking).
And if you use multiple condoms, please put them in the handy trash recepticles that are located in your room. I really don't like it when you fling them at a mirror, at the television screen or on the ceiling.
And another thing: I don't answer to Toots, Chick or Hey You. I have a name tag. Please take the half second that you need to read it. I don't like having my ass pinched. And I don't care how much money you have-I'm not taking off my clothes and "servicing" you.

I have a life outside of that hellhole motel. I don't mind cleaning up after you. I am paid to do that and the pay allows me to purchase new school clothes for my child. But the next time you check into a room please think about this: what if it were your sister or your mother having to clean up this shit for $6 an hour? How would you feel about that? Would you want your mother spending an hour on her hands and knees cleaning up nasty bodily fluids? Probably not.
Just use a bit of courtesy next time you rent a room. Don't purposely shove an entire roll of toilet paper down the toilet. Don't stick gum in the sheets. And don't trim your pubic hair while laying on the table.
/end rant

[sundog]

1. hey xmas

hang in there friend :pals:

[xmas74]

2. Thank you.

At least this part-time job will be over in a couple of weeks and Callie can get new school clothes out of it.

[sundog]

34. i know

the type of people you speak of... loud & obnoxious with little regard for the world around them... i know it's frustrating as hell x(

[xmas74]

44. I knew you'd understand.

You probably see these assholes' cousins every day at work.

[sundog]

47. yes

i deal with those types every day of my fucking life... i know where your head's at right now :hug:

[xmas74]

57. If I didn't hate guns I'd be at my local Walmart right now

picking one out.

[miss_kitty]

3. I am sorry you have to do that

No one should have to. Hotel cleaning should be about changing sheets and normal tidying and cleaning. Not playing nurse maid to a load of selfish lazy assholes.

I hope the next time some GDCSer wants you to service him, you can refuse him loudly and in detail, so that others might hear you.

[xmas74]

6. Believe me,

the only pleasure that I obtained throughout the entire day was embarrassing the shit out of that ass.

[In_The_Wind]

4. Hi ~ xmas74

[xmas74]

8. I needed that hug!

Bad day but my baby will get some decent school clothes for kindergarten. We're shopping the day after the fair is over.

[In_The_Wind]

20. I do travel a little. I treat my hotel room with as much respect

as I do my home. I also straighten up and leave a tip on my way out the door.

I'm sorry that you had to deal with a bunch of slobs. Hang in there. It'll get better.


When does kindergarten start?

[xmas74]

21. The 24th.

And she's really excited.
I just want to buy her a few nice outfits that didn't come from our local Walmart. She doesn't need to be teased just because her mom is poor.

[In_The_Wind]

27. awww ~ xmas ... kids can be so mean sometimes

I'm sure you'll find things that she'll love to wear.

The first day of school IS special. I'll be thinking about both of you and sending happy vibes your way.

Was she in any kind of school before or will this be her first time away from home?

[xmas74]

37. She was in preschool and really enjoyed it.

This is her first "big kid" school. She can't wait to ride the bus. She also wants to buy a lunchbox so that she can take her lunch every day (that won't last very long!).

I plan on going to KC to buy her a few outfits so that she won't look like a quarter of her class. I hope it's enough to buy something decent.

[In_The_Wind]

51. It sounds like she'll be off to a good start. Some of her friends

from preschool should be in the same school.

I'm certain that she'll make friends. The lunch box thing will be fun for her. She'll probably be looking to trade her nutritional carefully planed meals for somebody's cookies.

[xmas74]

53. You know me too well!

Every single meal has been thoughtfully planned out for the next month. I know who grows what kind of fruit in this area and what they spray on their fields so I know who to buy from. And I even make my own cookies (I know, not too many of us left).
We both know that the first chance she gets she will trade it all for Oreos. I can't blame her. I like Oreos too.

[Prodemsouth]

5. Jeeze was the hotel you work for invaded by freepers and W

voters.

[xmas74]

9. Well, it is Missouri.

[Prodemsouth]

72. Oh no! I am going to St. Louis for the first time the week after

next, well thanks for the warning.

[xmas74]

73. St Louis proper is ok-they are blue.

The 'burbs, OTOH, are another story.

[Spinzonner]

7. Look at the bright side

You don't have to see where they live

[xmas74]

11. I would hope that they don't live like that!

I think they just enjoy the idea of someone getting paid to clean up after them and they take full advantage of it.

[Systematic Chaos]

10. Wow....

That's just horrible. :(

What percentage of the rooms are that bad? Is it just about all of them or only a select few? And this is coming from someone who leaves a hotel room in the same condition he found it in, with the exception of rumpled sheets and damp linen. I HATE pigs. :grr:

On edit: DAMN linen? :eyes:

[xmas74]

12. About 40% during fairtime.

The rest of the year it's not too bad. All the white trash pigs come out then (and I can call them white trash since I am white and most of them would consider a housekeeper to be trash).

[Systematic Chaos]

14. You most certainly CAN call them white trash

I don't care if you're purple with orange polkadots. I call them far worse, trust me.

[xmas74]

16. I think I've earned the right.

I'm the only "white girl" on housekeeping staff so they ask me all their stupid questions.
Housekeeping is a job. It's a hard job and there are skills involved (hell, working at McDonalds involves skill!). I hate hearing them make fun of the housekeepers, especially our foreign-born ones (since they have dark skin they assume they don't speak English. Wrong! One of them was trained as a nurse in her home country. She is working here while trying to obtain her license stateside).
People treat housekeepers like shit.

[Zenlitened]

26. All sorts of interesting people do hotel housekeeping work...

... it's crazy to make assumptions.

I travel a lot for my job, and have gotten into the habit of leaving a small tip each day, rather than one larger tip at the end of my stay. I also write a quick thank-you note, so the housekeepers know it's for them.

Well, my cramped, childish handwriting is something I've always been embarrassed about. So I was blown away -- and totally jealous! -- one time when the housekeeper wrote a little note back in the The Most beautiful, elegant, flowing script I've ever seen. Seriously, it was like John Hancock's signature on the Declaration of Independence. Absolutely gorgeous.

She was from Jamaica and had a fairly thick accent, and I don't doubt cloddish guests make all sorts of dismissive assumptions about her, never knowing her intelligence and talent. Just goes to show how pointless it is to judge people on what they're doing for a living.

:hi:

[xmas74]

31. Exactly.

People underestimate them since they are "just housekeepers". Some of the most highly intelligent people that I have ever met did "unskilled" labor.

[madeline_con]

19. Caution, someone may come along......

arguing whether the term is a racial slur, and get that all stirred up.

I understand what type she means, and know she means no offense to any non-white trash we may have here. :eyes:

(I was asked in another post if I'm misunderstood much. Why, yes, yes I am!)

[xmas74]

22. But is it a racial slur if it's aimed at my own race?

IMO, it's not a racial slur. It's more a classist slur. There are different forms of trash-white, trailer park, etc.
Most of the time it's aimed at lower classes (pretty funny since I drive a '94 Tracer and most of the guests were driving Lincolns and Hummers).

[madeline_con]

28. "There are different forms of trash-white, trailer park, etc."

I have a friend who gets upset with me when I say "trailer trash", because she lives in one. I always have to tell her, "Oh, I don't mean YOU!"

When she first moved there a few years ago, my son was tiny. He walked around the 'house', then doubled at the waist and looked underneath. Finally, he asked, "Where's the wheels, Chris?"


:rofl:

[xmas74]

39. I've lived in a trailer before.

I've heard the comments. Most are not trash. Just like everything else in life it's the minority that sticks the label on everyone else.
And my best friend's son did the same thing. He wanted to see the wheels too. He thought it was cool.

[madeline_con]

45. Me, too. Lived there, done that....

I never should have brought up the heated debate that resulted last time the phrase was typed here.

Now, I'm sorry to say, it's all about PC speech instead of the hell you had to go through. :cry:

[xmas74]

52. I remember the last flame.

I was in on that one (stupid me!).
And sometimes we try to be too PC for our own good. There are times that plainspeaking will get us farther than all the 10 cent words that we can dig out of a dictionary.
It was good enough for Truman to speak how he felt. Since I live about 40 minutes from his home it's good enough for me.

[madeline_con]

59. There you go.

I should have left the busybodies out of this.

It's hard to tell sometimes on DU. A thread was locked not long ago, and I can't figure out why. But, I don't get offended as easily as some people do, and maybe more easily than others, who knows?

Something that looks flaming to one poster might not strike me as all that, and vice versa.

When I cleaned hotel rooms, we had to dust the lightbulbs in the lamps. It had never occured to me before, and my Mom made us CLEAN (toothbrush and bleach type stuff) when we were growing up. She never had us dust the bulbs, though.

Bottm line, I hope you feel better after venting, and with the support you got over the incident. :)

[xmas74]

61. I do feel better.

Except for my feet and my back. I'm pretty stiff right now.

[spinbaby]

13. I just read an article about this

In the WSJ, I think. Couple of weeks back. Maids in NYC are refusing to clean rooms if they're too bad. Bad manners are not limited to the country-fair crowd, evidentially.

[xmas74]

17. They're not.

I've cleaned rooms before in both cities and towns. It's usually an easy job to get and I can pick up a few extra dollars here and there.
They are really treated badly. If our guests had to clean up that mess they would easily demand $30-$40 an hour pay.
They seem to think it's their right to be asses while staying somewhere besides home.

[madeline_con]

29. "They seem to think it's their right ..."

They never seem to consider that if they saw the room in the condition THEY left it, they'd find another hotel! :think:

[xmas74]

32. Yes they would.

And they would contact the corporate offices about the condition of the room.

[madeline_con]

15. "Please take the half second that you need to read it."

There are a lot of indications from your post that it would take far longer than that.

O.M.G. I feel so bad for you. I hope you removed your shoes at the door when you got home to keep from contaminating your house with who KNOWS what sort of contagion!

Some people are pigs, and don't consider the other people in the world.

[xmas74]

18. I wanted to but it was storming outside

so I took them off as soon as I stepped into my doorway. They're in the washer right now.

[Placebo]

23. pssh, State Fairs — who f'n needs 'em?

not me!

multiple rubbers, ew

i feel your pain :hug:

[xmas74]

24. Everyone who's ever worked in the service industry

probably feels my pain right now.
As to multiple condoms: if you saw some of the women these men were picking up you'd triple wrap to protect from disease.

[madeline_con]

30. Some types of "funk" jump off on you!

The idea of trying to put up a barrier against some of the filth out there... :puke:

[xmas74]

46. Pretty gross.

If they were smart (and they're not) they would just stay away.
Maybe that's why I found shaved pubes on the table in a room this morning.

[madeline_con]

50. ".... on the table " GEEZ

Some people would actually do the same thing at home, and think nothing of it.

[xmas74]

58. Some people are just nasty.

[madeline_con]

62. Some people really surprise you...

I worked at a call center doing directory assistance, and there was this young lady all the guys seemed to think was so hot. She had one of those Veronica Lake do's where only one eye shows through the bangs.

Anyway, she was in the bathroom once during break and left without washing her hands.

We didn't have assigned computers, so keeping Purell with us was a must for some of us.

[xmas74]

63. I was a dispatcher until recently.

We didn't have assigned computers either. Purell and Lysol were a lifesaver there. All kinds of nasty little crumbs were all over the keyboards every day. And one person used to wipe their snot all over the mouse.

[madeline_con]

64. Gross....

:puke:

[xmas74]

65. Isn't it?

[Placebo]

38. gross!

are state fairs big for the prostitution biz? sure sounds like it! :puke:

[xmas74]

48. Just big for the 'ho business.

Small town girls who get away from Mom and Dad for a couple of days while showing off their prize heifers.
Seems like they enjoy showing off other things too.

[madeline_con]

25. A word about the "quality" of State Fairs.....

You know you've hit the skids when your band can only get a gig at a fair. :puke:

[Placebo]

33. why do you hate America™?

:P

[madeline_con]

35. It's your freedom.....

fries.

[trof]

36. EXCELLENT RANT!

A by-god, double-barreled, brass-bound, cast-iron, hard-down-knucks, no-fudging, throat-grabbing, ass-whoopin', just-kick-ass RANT!
I admire ya.
:thumbsup:

BTW, I tip the chambermaid.
:-)

[xmas74]

41. You tip?

I wish I had your room!
And thank you for the thumbs up. I was worried about the comment made in ref to the porn and the "toy" offending some posters (though I just told the truth).

[trof]

43. Got the habit in Europe.

It's done there.

[xmas74]

54. It's supposed to be "done" here too.

Just most people don't.

[trof]

40. The state fair is the first time I ever saw a woman spit

hard boiled eggs out of her...um...you know.
The strip show.
I was 17 and ABSOLUTELY AMAZED.

[xmas74]

42. I've been witness to a few "acts" too.

All of them were at a state fair.

[trof]

49. The physics, trajectory, and distance demonstrated blew me away.

I didn't know you could DO that.

[xmas74]

56. LOL!

[Clintmax]

55. I can't even imagine...

the things you've seen in the hotel rooms you've cleaned! I'm quite sure those described weren't even the worst of it! Me? I've stayed in many hotels. I try my BEST not to leave a huge old mess for the housekeepers to clean up. I know your job has GOT to be a bitch!

[xmas74]

60. If you've ever watched shows like Dateline or 20/20

you'd see where they go into rooms and shine blacklights.
Once you see that you'd never stay in a room again.
Thank goodness a friend has a travel trailer!

[WCGreen]

66. Just so you know.....

My buddy use to work at the ritz here in Cleveland.....

And he said that a lot of the people who stayed there were absolutel pigs....

All the time, not just during special occassions.....

I guess there is something about staying in a hotel that gives people license to act like slobs.....

I always clean up after myself and check the room to see that it isn't too bad...

[xmas74]

67. Thank you from housekeepers all over the US!

[Floogeldy]

68. I'm glad you got that off of your chest.

And you are 100% justified.

B-)

[xmas74]

70. Thank you.

[complain jane]

69. People like you make me want to

come to your motel and leave it really nice and leave something cool in it the next morning for you and your daughter.

[xmas74]

71. I'd love that.

It'll never happen but thank you for the kind thought.
:hi: