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May. 8th, 2008

  • 7:47 PM
Pirate cat, Puget Sound Sunset, Creek, Alatheia, trees, Kala Point
[info]jbalogna
General hotel wisdom says you just shouldn't comment on guests' names. Chances are they'll be offended. Do I let Rodney King and James Brown go by without comment. I did not ask Mr. Pickle if he knew Mr. Hamburger. And I did not crack a smile when Mr. Cupp spelled out his name... C U P P). But yesterday when Mr. Doctor checked in, I just had to ask if he had his PhD... and he did!

Life is better with Doctor Doctor in the world.

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[info]neurotic55 wrote:
May. 9th, 2008 12:18 am (UTC)
We had Ima Lamb stay with us once! :) A possible typo you may ask? No...not unless Visa/MC also made the same typo on the card..
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[info]sullivanlane wrote:
May. 9th, 2008 02:53 pm (UTC)
Hopefully that is just her married name and her parents were just not that mean to her.
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[info]bostonirishxox wrote:
May. 9th, 2008 12:22 am (UTC)
I love when they come to check in and you ask their name and they start spelling it for you S-m-i-t-h.
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[info]rampagingturtle wrote:
May. 9th, 2008 12:31 am (UTC)
One time I had a couple of gentlemen from the same company check in together. I barely refrained from handing Mr. Ball and Mr. Butts their keys with the exclamation, "Naughty Bits, party of two, your rooms are ready!"
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[info]mybrothersgay wrote:
May. 9th, 2008 01:03 am (UTC)
My favorite here is Mr. Mistur. Kinda like the 80's band. :D
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[info]tengupriestess wrote:
May. 9th, 2008 01:17 am (UTC)
No joke, I remember Ms. Aura asking me if there was a New Age Shop in town!
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[info]chthonic_gnome wrote:
May. 9th, 2008 01:47 am (UTC)
My all-time favorite was Mr. Dick Oder.

*Sniff sniff*... =\
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[info]ltj_rules wrote:
May. 9th, 2008 06:33 am (UTC)
ROFL!
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[info]heftyjefe wrote:
May. 9th, 2008 02:16 am (UTC)
I tend to have a terrible sense of timing when it comes to things like this:

Out of good humor I asked Mr. Stephen Ghyrskz if he was Jonothan or Stephen. Of course there was no Jonothan Ghyrskz reservation, it was the first name I could think of... I smiled, thinking I was so clever.

He stared at me blankly, it was akward. I realized suddenly that I had been quite unhospitable and unproffesional, at the moment I might as well have been naked.
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[info]hajile99 wrote:
May. 9th, 2008 02:42 am (UTC)
I had the opportunity (or misfortune) of checking in/out:

Ms. Rosemary Dill
Mr. Dick Hiscocks
Mr. and Mrs. Penisse
Mr. Couch

That's all I can think of for now...I know I've had more...
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[info]darcyd324 wrote:
May. 9th, 2008 03:36 am (UTC)
I had a guy the other night with the last name Gansta. You know like gangster.
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[info]silverrain1139 wrote:
May. 9th, 2008 03:41 am (UTC)
I had a Mr. John Ritter recently.
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[info]aislin_raina wrote:
May. 9th, 2008 04:10 am (UTC)
I've had a Jack Sparrow before.
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[info]appleredhair wrote:
May. 9th, 2008 06:30 am (UTC)
I got a Tina Turner!
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[info]lykari wrote:
May. 9th, 2008 11:37 am (UTC)
My favorite was Justin Case.
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[info]sullivanlane wrote:
May. 9th, 2008 02:54 pm (UTC)
I think I mentioned it before, but I once got a rooming list with the last name Schitter. I giggled for like a day. (Because I'm 12. And a half.) Then the meeting planner sent me a revised list and his last name was really spelled Schnitter. Too bad, the first one was more awesome!
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[info]maggie_922 wrote:
May. 9th, 2008 09:46 pm (UTC)
I had one whose last name was Lickdyke.
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[info]frontdeskboi wrote:
May. 9th, 2008 11:25 pm (UTC)
Can't forget my Ms. HoeGerl, pronounced 'ho-girl' by me when she checked in, and I barely kept a straight face. I think i need to start a tally of all the weird names over on FrontDeskBlog
:)
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[info]neurotic55 wrote:
May. 12th, 2008 01:43 am (UTC)
Wow, a real Justin Case is out there? We, and I'm sure a lot of hotels, use that as the name we put on reservations when we want to hold them for if/when something goes wrong and we're sold out.

We haven't had any good names in a while, but when we do I always write down the reservation number and leave it in one of my front desk girls folder and tell her 'yay! funny name reservation'
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[info]lykari wrote:
May. 12th, 2008 04:09 am (UTC)
Yep...a real Justin Case. The property that I worked at back then also used the name to hold extra rooms, so I was pretty entertained indeed when he arrived.
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[info]poor_ingenue wrote:
May. 12th, 2008 01:45 am (UTC)
I had a Mrs. Doody check in a while back... And just last week, there was a lady whose last name was Whitehorn, but she pissed off the reservationist, so when she called to make changes to her reservation, it came up as Whitewhore. "Okay, now what was it you needed to change on your reservation, Ms. Whitewhore?" She was a little upset about that. >D
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[info]neurotic55 wrote:
May. 18th, 2008 12:21 am (UTC)
OMG you actually called her whitewhore?? that's great :)
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