Can we use your pool?

[Midnight]

Okay, I usually work 3rd shift during weekends as my second job at the local Hampton Inn. We're located right next to a Holiday Inn along with a couple other hotels in the immediate area.

Anyways, probably about a half an hour ago I have the following conversation with someone who phoned the hotel:

Me = Me
DG = Dumb Girl

Me = Good Morning blah blah blah, this is Midnight, how can I help you?
DG = How late is your pool open?
Me = We usually close it around midnight, but I will usually let guests use it afterwords if they're relatively quiet.
DG = Okay, can we use it then?
Me = Are you currently staying at our hotel?
DG = No, we're staying at the hotel across the street and the pool is closed over here, so we were wondering if we could come over and use your hottub for a little bit?
Me = You usually have to be a guest at our hotel in order to use the facilities here. If you'd like to rent a room, I'd be more than happy to let you use the pool area.
DG = Oh, nevermind then. Have a good night.
Me = Have a good evening. ( after hanging up)

Are some people just retarded?

Yeah, I'll let any schmuck just come off the street and use our pool at 12:30 at night...

Seriously, like I'm going to let anyone just walk in here and use our facilities without paying for a room first, especially if they're staying at a competitors hotel. The girl sounded relatively ditzy, so it's not suprising logic probably doesn't exist in her world. Ugh....

[Crawley]

12:30 at night....Gee I wonder what they wanted to use the hottub for anyway.

The only guests that want to swim that late at night are usually up to no good.

[Getoutofmylobby]

Yeah, what's with people thinking hotels are public places. Just because we extend certain courtisies to guests doesn't mean they apply to everyone. People come in and "ask" for free newspapers, toothpaste, shower caps, phone books... Some people treat a hotel as a personal bank, asking us to break hundereds and fifties when we really don't carry much change to begin with. Once one "freebie" is gained then that person thinks they can have everything.

I hate it when customers get away with stuff but you gotta hand it to some people, its a crafty trick to get free things from hotels. To finagle free use of the pool has got to be the best trick of all.

Working the audit one night i had a drifter walk in and ask to use the phone. I didn't want him to use the phone, but then again i didn't want to get robbed or killed, or worse, so i let him have at it. Besides, i don't pay the phone bill... Anyhow, he had a loud, angry conversation with someone about Western Union and when he was done, he asked me how much it would cost to stay. The lowest price we had was $104.

Drifter: "That's way too much.. can't i just use a shower?"
Me: "I guess you could, but i'd still have to charge you for it."
Drifter: "But i don't have any money for that."
Me: "We're not a shelter sir, we're a business."
Drifter: "Can I at least use the pool?"

This is where he's got me. We both knew the pool was for guests only. If i say no, that makes me an asshole and other than being a dirty traveler, he wasn't too dangerous looking. He might have simply been some guy that was down on his luck. Then again, i would essentially be allowing this man to bathe in our pool and on top of that, i'd be reinforcing his "hotels give you free stuff if you keep asking for it" theory...

Me: "Sorry, man, you wouldn't want to use it, I put some chemicals in there about an hour ago."

I guess being a filthy liar is better then being an honest jerk. He eventually left, but not without using the bathroom, grabbing an apple and two cups of coffee on the way out.

In grade school there was one kid who always asked people for stuff from their lunches because his mother never packed him one and our cafeteria was the pits. I guess i found out what happened to him.

[South Texan]

Me =You usually have to be a guest at our hotel in order to use the facilities here. If you'd like to rent a room, I'd be more than happy to let you use the pool area.
DG = Oh, nevermind then. Have a good night.
Me = Have a good evening.

Hey, at least she was polite and asked about the hot tub rather than just coming over and attempting to get in then pitching a fit when she was told to leave.

Still, that shows a lot of chutzpha or stupidity to make such a request

[Jack7957]

Some of the hotels in the Syracuse area allow locals to use the pools during the winter for a fee, not sure how much though.

[Hicksey]

People like this make a case for eugenics ...

[Becks]

Hicksey, I don't get it.

[Getoutofmylobby]

Eugenics, i think, is another way to say selective breeding. So, we allow people with only good traits to have kids, and just let the ones with bad traits die.

The Nazi's tried this.

It was originally meant for people with birth defects or genetic disorders, but i think our friend Hicksey means to extend this to stupid people too. Adult idiots will obviously create more little idiots.

He's right too, judging by the piles of idiots chronicled on this website. Perhaps the gene pool DOES need a little chlorine.

[Jester]

I have to admit, I am one of those people who have been known to use hotel pools as my own. Personally, I am surprised the girl called and asked....I would have just walked over and used it.

To be honest, when I lived in the old apartment, I used the nearby hotel's pool and especially hot tub as my own personal fun zone. Yes, I was up to no good. No, I was not alone. Do the math.

That being said, the one time we were actually busted, we politely and quietly left the premises. No fits, no complaints, no problem.

Yes, I know that some of you may think I'm an ass for this. Yes, I know I shouldn't have been doing this. Yes, I know this may make me an SC to some. And I am alright with this. Because, quite frankly, my watertime companions were not at all hard on the eyes.

[Becks]

Gooml, thanks for the info.

[Antisocial_Worker]

...To be honest, when I lived in the old apartment, I used the nearby hotel's pool and especially hot tub as my own personal fun zone. Yes, I was up to no good. No, I was not alone. Do the math. :eyewaggle ...

I once fielded a call from a producer who was hoping to use our pool to film a gay porn movie.

Pity we don't have a pool. When informed of this, he asked for suggestions, but seeing as all the hotels here have pools that are highly visible either from the road or from all the guest rooms, all I could do for him was suggest a local b&b that has a private waterfall (I know the owner).

[Hicksey]

It was a movement that was designed to breed the "undesirable" traits out of society by allowing only selective people to mate in order to create a better race. I mentioned it because maybe her family should have done it to prevent being blood related to such an idiot.

[Hicksey]

He's right too, judging by the piles of idiots chronicled on this website. Perhaps the gene pool DOES need a little chlorine.

Said even better than I did! Bravo

[chainedbarista]

just a *little* chlorine? i think it's in need of MUCH chlorine; industrial strength type.

[AFpheonix]

Heck, why don't we dump in a little napalm?