I’m up early in the morning. It’s 2:50AM, but I am on the West Coast, so that’s not so very early my time, and I was in bed by 8:30PM last night, so things aren’t so difficult as they might seem.
But wait until 3:00 this afternoon.
More to the point of this blog posting — while walking, bare feet, down the carpeted hall of my hotel for ice, to go with my early morning caffeine of choice, Diet Pepsi, I caught a glimpse of something so magical that we almost never talk about it, except with our very most trusted confidants. It was the receipt fairy, that barely visible imp, who noiselessly slips receipts under the doors of our hotel rooms.
And guess what. He wears a uniform!
OK, you’re probably asking yourself, “he thinks this is funny?” It is 2:55 in the morning. ..And I am in California! 😉
Next thing you’re going to tell that there isn’t a Santa Claus and that airport baggage handlers are just people, in spite of the shape of the footprints they leave in your luggage!
I hope the receipt fairy has been good to you. Thank you for dispelling a myth about them, I always thought they wore a white robe.
Ah — you see things some of us can ONLY imagine………(grins)
Alas, again you are in California??? Oh well, hello from SoCal!!
Whatcha doing on my side of the states???
Jen
Nominated for post of the year.
Now, that’s one job we can’t outsource.
If you put salt on his tail he’ll grant you a wish, as long as that wish is for a roll-away, extra towels or a mint. Try it sometime.
The reciept fairy wears a uniform. Is it a bunny with little wings on the back! (that is the image I got when I read your post)
The Room Folio Faerie is what I used to call myself back in the day when I did such things. I paid my way through college being a bellman, worked 10p – 6a. It truly is amazing some of the things you see in the hotel business. I’ve seen someone doing just as you one night while delivering the room folios under the door, although he was umm…how should I say it….thinking he was the only one on the floor at the time and wearing his birthday suit.
Tom
Seeking the Wisdom of the Ages…
“The receipt fairy.” I never knew what they were called. I will never be able to stay in a hotel again without thinking about this reference.
It’s 6:24am on Thursday, June 7th. At 4:15am this morning I left my room to drive a colleague to the airport.
I spotted the receipt fairy. Details available at http://pedersondesigns.com/2007/06/07/breaking-news-hotel-fairies-confirmed/.