Interesting things sure happen at work, especially at my job. Yesterday at work, at the last minute of my 15 minute break I get beeped on the radio and get told to come to the office and get some Nature Grace (name of a chemical) and go up to the lobby and spray the couch because there was a homeless guy on it.
I go up there and spray it and I see the police car out there parked on the side of the road and I see a guy in the back which was the bum but I couldn't get a really good look at him. I saw the police officer out there with the hotel security.
This was the seventh time he came back I learned. For the past two days he has kept coming back and then it was seven days total, now eight. He was arrested at four o clock in the afternoon and he was taken to the Salvation Army because the police felt sorry for him and they told him just don't come back to that hotel. He comes back less than an hour later and I get beeped at 4:47 PM and then five hours later he comes back. He was arrested again but this time he peed on the couch so I had to spray it and then it was brought down to the office so the shampoo guy can shampoo it and this was not the first time he peed on it. He did it two nights ago and this guy who works in banquets who helped carried it down said "He will be wearing diapers next time."
I think that was a joke. He can't afford them if he doesn't have any money and I doubt they are going to buy him diapers and ask him to put them on.
Plus he stinks, his pants smell bad. I think he is incontinent. He looks to be in his sixties one of them said and he is mentally unstable. They can tell by the way he talks and he looks like he is listening but he really isn't. He could have Alzheimer's but who knows. I thought this was very interesting.
Other interesting things we might get at work is we have to make sure we close the bathroom doors or a bum could come in and take stuff out of the restroom. We have to make sure we close the doors to the linen closets or bums could get into them and take stuff out of there or even use them for shelter. I was told a story about there was a bum who was sleeping in one of the closets and the maids couldn't get the door open so they had to take the rims off the door (I don't know how they did it if the rims are on the other side of the door in the closet) and there was a blockade of the carts and there was a homeless guy sleeping. They had him arrested. This happened in the late 1980's or 90's but it was a high chance it happened when my family and I were still living in the area since we moved away in '98.
I don't understand why people feel intimated by homeless people. Of course they don't know if they have guns or not or any weapons so it's understandable but we will mind as well feel the same way about other people too who aren't homeless. Go out and feel intimated by other people you see in stores, on the road, in malls, supermarkets so that's why feeling threatened by homeless people doesn't make any sense. I just ignore them. But I can understand why the bum wasn't wanted in our hotel, he stinks, guests don't need to put up with that, especially people who are checking in, he wets his pants, our hotel isn't a homeless shelter. They don't allow people to stay for free so that means they can't stay in the lobby and sleep or just hang out. That's one of the reasons why we have security. Plus imagine coming into nice hotel where rooms cost $179 dollars a night or more and there you see a bunch of homeless people loitering in the lobby, what would you think of the place? I don't think lot of people would want to stay there.
