It's now four in the morning and everyone at the bar is now cleaning up and getting ready to close. I guess today could be considered a good day, I made three hundred dollars in tips today, after cleaning up behind the bar and setting everything in its perspective places I can now go home to take a nap before my shift at the hotel starts.
As soon as I got home I took a quick shower and was in bed by five thirty….."RING! RING! RING!"
"Uhgg...is it already seven? I guess I better get up." I drag my body out of bed, not really wanting to get up and go to work. But I gotta make this money, I hurry up and get dressed, make me a bagel with cream cheese and run out of the door because again I have to be at the hotel by eight thirty. Arriving at the hotel I get straight to work because I know for sure this is going to be a long day…..Here comes Cindy the manager, she's here to inform everyone who their partners are going to be for today and how many rooms we're expected to clean before our shift is over.
"Good morning everyone! I hope you all are ready to get straight to work? Crystal today you'll be working with Sarah today, and by the end of the day all forty five rooms that are on this list need to be cleaned before you leave today."
Sarah takes the list from Cindy and follows me into the room with the cleaning carts, We take two carts instead of one so that we can get finished with our rooms fast.
"Hey Crystal we got rooms on the top floors, do you want to start there first?"
"Sure why not." Sarah is a pretty cool person, she's like six years older than me though, I'm just happy she doesn't try to boss us younger people on staff around because she thinks that she's experienced life more than us because she's older.
"Are you busy this weekend Ci Ci?"
"No why?"
"There's this party that's happening at University of Michigan, do you want to go with me?"
"I don't know….do you mind if I invited a few of my friends to come with?"
"Girl, of course they can come!"
"Question?"
"Answer."
"You're twenty six years old, why are you going to a college party at a school you don't even attend?"
"I have some cousins that go there and they told me about it…. Is that weird?"
"Noo, I was just curious. Cause I know that you're in graduate school, and UofM isn't the school you go to."
"Yea, I know that I'm old but that doesn't mean I can't have fun."
"Yea whatever." Sarah and I both start laughing, and I don't even know why….I guess we both have a weird sense of humor.
Sh*t it's already two o'clock and our shift ends at four…..I take the list of rooms that were assigned to us out of my pocket and notice that we still have fifteen rooms to clean.
Sh*t Sh*t Sh*t Sh*t
"SARAH!!!" I Screamed Sarah's name, and she came running into the next room out of breath.
"WHAT! What's wrong? Did something happen?" Out of breath, Sarah held her chest.
"It's already two o'clock."
"Okay?"
"Meaning we have to hurry up, we still have fifteen more rooms to clean before four!"
"Oh Crap! Are you serious? Then we should split the rooms to get it done faster, just pull out your phone right now and send me the number to half of the rooms. We already have two carts I could just take one."
"Great idea! I'm sending them to you now." After sending the room numbers to Sarah we split up and agreed to meet up at the very last room to tag team it together.
Three Thirty and 'OH MY GOD!' I am basically running towards the last room so that we can finish the last room and clock out on time. Our manager Cindy hates for us to clock late even if it's just one minute after our clock out time.
Sarah and I arrive at the room one minute after the other and we finish the room. By the time we clocked out it was 4:00:48, we almost didn't make it.