Odd Jobs: Unmade Beds

Ever wonder what really happens in that hotel room when you leave to go to your conference or go to meet a client? Of course not. Who gives a... The sweet Hispanic maid will take care of everything. I think they do now. But in 1976, there was the houseman. I had a canvas cart on wheels that could hold a lot. I would streak down a hall, jump into a room, throw all the wet towels from the bathroom into the middle of the bed, hank the linen up from the corners of the bed- (leaving the blanket and bedspread of course) and throw the whole bundle into the cart. I could strip 20-25 rooms in a half hour. (well, maybe not that quick) then the sweet little maid would come along and make the room up and clean. Think about it, next time you check in, throw yourself on the made-up bed. That bedspread probably hasn't been washed in a month, nor has the blanket on the bed. But you don't want to know that. The rest of the day for the houseman back then was vacuuming hallways, washing windows, cleaning lobbies and ashtrays, hauling garbage, stocking linen closets, etc etc. If you were in Monterey in 1976, you would go out with the other houseman at lunch and smoke a doobie and you would sail through vacuuming that hallway. Someone had to come and get me one afternoon, I was having so much fun.