Hotel guest checks out after 10-plus years (worked for Housing/Urban Development)

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Source: CNN

Garrulous and active, 79-year-old Joy Bricker presides over her hotel suite in a manner befitting a grander home. She offers tea to the staff and media with the ease of a person schooled in proper etiquette.

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Extended hotel stays are not so unusual, according to Carla Berberich, a general manager at the Towne Place Suites, especially for business travelers. This Virginia location is nearly half-filled, at 46 percent. But, no one has stayed as long as Bricker, who checked in on August 4, 2001. She is the longest extended-stay guest any Marriott hotel has seen.

What brought Bricker here was a job with the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the second politically-appointed position the onetime homemaker says she accepted. But this one came when she was 68, when many senior citizens are well settled into retirement.

But, Bricker began her professional career at 50. Years of political organizing she says led to a friendship with Elizabeth and Bob Dole and ultimately to her first job during the Reagan administration in the Department of Transportation in 1981. A stint followed at the White House, where she worked in the campaign for A Drug Free America starting in 1986.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/30/living/virginia-hotel-guest/index.html

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1. I hope she signed up for the Marriott Rewards program

LOL

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2. I thought the US government had a mandatory retirement age of 65 for

any and all of its employees.

:wtf: :shrug:

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3. nope

and I have lived in hotels for 6 years+

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4. A real life Royal Tannenbaum!