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Towel Scam
Long time no post… So just to recap, I work at the front desk of a gym.
A man comes up to the front desk all sweaty (had just finished working out) and requests a towel rental.
Me: “No problem, that’ll be one dollar and we just need to hold on to your membership card until you return the towel in that drop off slot.” *points*
SC: “Oh, here’s my card. I don’t have a dollar on me right now, is it okay if I pay you when I return the towel?”
Me: feeling nice “Okay that’s fine.”
About a half hour later the man comes to the front desk and tries to hand me the towel (which is sloppily folded up).
Me: “You can just drop it in that slot, and its one dollar.”
SC: Still trying to hand me the towel “Oh, I didn’t use it. I found a towel in my locker after all. It’s dry, feel it”
Now , I have no way of knowing happened with the towel after it went into the men’s locker room. And there is no way I am going to touch that towel when it could have just been used as butt floss, let alone put it back with the clean ones so that some other poor customer can use it. Also, I could tell that it had been unfolded and folded back up because we fold them a certain way so that they take up less space.
Me: “We still need to wash that towel, so please drop it in the slot.”
Normally, I don’t put up with crap like that but I’m not going to stand there and argue over one dollar. I just handed him his card back without a word or a smile and called up the next customer. It just got under my skin that people can be so cheap!
A man comes up to the front desk all sweaty (had just finished working out) and requests a towel rental.
Me: “No problem, that’ll be one dollar and we just need to hold on to your membership card until you return the towel in that drop off slot.” *points*
SC: “Oh, here’s my card. I don’t have a dollar on me right now, is it okay if I pay you when I return the towel?”
Me: feeling nice “Okay that’s fine.”
About a half hour later the man comes to the front desk and tries to hand me the towel (which is sloppily folded up).
Me: “You can just drop it in that slot, and its one dollar.”
SC: Still trying to hand me the towel “Oh, I didn’t use it. I found a towel in my locker after all. It’s dry, feel it”
Now , I have no way of knowing happened with the towel after it went into the men’s locker room. And there is no way I am going to touch that towel when it could have just been used as butt floss, let alone put it back with the clean ones so that some other poor customer can use it. Also, I could tell that it had been unfolded and folded back up because we fold them a certain way so that they take up less space.
Me: “We still need to wash that towel, so please drop it in the slot.”
Normally, I don’t put up with crap like that but I’m not going to stand there and argue over one dollar. I just handed him his card back without a word or a smile and called up the next customer. It just got under my skin that people can be so cheap!
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