Inside the Secret Lives of the Ultra-Rich: Shocking Tales from Luxury Hotels and Restaurants Revealed
He then returns about an hour later, and proceeds to shut down the joint with us, still covering drinks “here and there.”
The next day when I came in as part of the clean-up crew (grabbing drunkenly abandoned uniform or materials), the host gave me the breakdown after I asked how long their charges normally take to process, as I hadn’t seen my bar tab hit my account yet.
Turns out the regular owned a chunk of the marina, and covered a combined $12,000 bar tab as “thanks to the servicemen and women.” I had a tab of over $450 waiting on my card, completely covered that night. It was glorious.
**Edit – D**n, I thought this would get buried.
I hope somewhere up there in the north country this old rich dude is still getting his daily nightcap and making people’s lives. He was engaging to talk to, pleasurable company, and didn’t leave things hanging when one was ready to move on.
If I run into him again, I’ll tell him the tab he covered was almost dollar for upvote to the karma I received off this story!
Back when I did waitering, there was a woman and her friends at one of my tables. The woman asked for a can of Coke (Coca-Cola, just so we’re clear).
When I brought their drinks and gave the woman her Coke, she looked at me, and, in that typical rich b***h voice, said “Excuse me, honey? I asked for Fanta, not Coke”. So I apologised, wrote it onto my notepad, and went back to get her a can of Fanta. Brought it to her, and again, she turned to me and said “I didn’t ask for Fanta, I asked for Cream Soda”.
By this time, I was getting a bit annoyed, but went back and got her a Cream Soda anyway. And surely, when I returned to her table, she did the same thing again. “I asked for Sprite. Should I call the manager?”
So, for the last time, I smiled and I went back to the kitchen and packed one can of each: Coke, Cream Soda, Fanta, Sprite, Pepsi and Sparberry Soda, into a small plastic box and took it all to her and said “Here you go, miss, take your pick.”
She looked offended and almost made a scene. She started lecturing me about how I’m incapable of getting the simplest order right and that she wants to talk to the restaurant’s manager. I told her that I can call him, and that I’ll show him all the soda types I wrote on my notepad that she asked for, and we can get his opinion on the matter.
She turned and took her d**n Sprite out of the plastic box and said “Just leave it.” Her friends were silent throughout the whole ordeal and none of them gave me any issues further on. I didn’t receive a tip, as expected, but I shrugged it off. Most customers were decent.
Edit: “waitering” is a South African term; but I learned some better terms and ways of referring to that from you guys, thanks you! :).
Worked in a fancy smancy lobster pound/restaurant on the water where had a lot of outdoor seating. These very very wealthy people come to eat and demand a table outside for dinner. Now it’s just before sundown in the middle of summer in Maine and we’re on the water so mosquitoes are definitely not scarce. These people sit down order a $200 bottle of wine a massive lobster each and some appetizers. They seem to enjoy the meal up until the sun sets and the bugs come out. These people were not happy and complaining and complaining about it and the “s****y restaurant not paying for mosquito spraying” the waitress gets a couple candles to light and asks if they need anything else and those mother f*****s asked her to stand next to them with a flyswatter. She laughed thinking they were joking and the man said “what ever happened to good service nowadays” they also left 0 tip on a $350 bill.
Had a business dude rent one of our apartments for 3 weeks at this fancy hotel I worked at. Second day, we get a maintenence call, he wants us to remove to the TV. Not replace it, just remove it entirely.
As housekeeper I head up with maintenance to clean up any mess from the move and got to see it all. The guest is removing our TV – because he’s gone and bought his own. Bigger. Flashier. Brand new. There was also a brand new (I cleaned up the packaging) PS4 he was hooking up to his new TV.
We had no idea if this was against policy so we left it. Guy’s paying for the room, he’s not broken anything, idgaf.
At the end of his stay, he leaves it all behind. Maintenence dude took the TV (easier to smuggle out the service entrance for him) I took the PS4 and sold it for more travelling funds. Thanks, ridiculously rich business dude! You paid for 2 weeks of travelling!
Edit: not sure if this counts but I totally forgot about the seriously loaded d**g a****t who hired our penthouse, DND’d for 3 days and painted every inch of it black before doing a runner.
Edit 2: I actually posted my black room story in r/talesfromhousekeeping under “I want it painted black” (we all like the same puns I see). Pics and everything!
EDIT 3: cause there’s some serious b******t going on about how it’s totes impossible to travel for 2 weeks on the price of a PS4. One, chill out. I did it. It really happened. I had a great time, thanks for asking. I got 240 for the PS4 plus controller plus baggie of weed I’d found in a separate hotel room. Add d**g dealing to grand larceny guys, we rackin em up. Two, I lived in a Toyota corolla, ate instant noodles made on my lil gas stove and travelled from Abel Tasman nation park around to Opparara Basin. Lot of beaches, lot of hiking, lot of chill days with a book and view. It’s totally doable when you’re a scruffy s**t who doesn’t care about showering daily or eating regularly. I had an absolute ball, and I thank rich PS4 dude for that. I am in no way intending to misinform wannabe travellers. My advice if you’re road tripping? Make a budget. Be sensible. Then double the amount of money you think you’ll need, and go with that. You won’t need it, but you’ll be prepared in case of an emergency or some super cool s**t you see off the beaten track you just *gotta* do.
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