Tourism season is coming up.

As a former hotel maid, I promise you that if you mistreat maids, servers, janitors, etc., I'll be haunting your dreams for years to come.

guys. if you want album or music recs i highly recommend TOURIST SEASON by miel, which was released in 2020. i listened to it in 2022 and it's one of my favorite albums of all time.

the fact that it's about anthony is still so surreal to me. sometimes i wonder what it feels like to have an album be about you, especially when it's by your ex, and especially when the album is so damn good???

I caught a customer in a lie today, and it was the most vindicating experience I've ever had at this job!

I work at a motel, and because we're understaffed my boss moved the checkout time from 11am to 10am. She did this in 2020, and that has been the policy ever since. We make a point of telling that to every single customer who stays here, but we still get a lot of liars who say they were told checkout was at 11, not 10. I didn't tell them that, my boss (the owner) didn't tell them that, the only other employee who works the front desk has been working here longer than I have and she wouldn't have told them that, but there's no physical proof, so they can claim that they were told 11 by "somebody else," and we can't dispute it. But not today.

Today, at 10:30 I go over and knock on this lady's door to let her know that checkout was at 10. She refused to open the door, instead yelling at me through it that she was told 11. I told her, no, you were told 10, so she changes her story and says "well, your website says 11." Our website is old. It looks like it was made in the early 2000s, because it was, so I think "maybe it does say 11, maybe my boss forgot to update it," because we don't use it; you can't make a reservation online, it tells you to call us for rates and availability. So I tell her that whatever the website says, our policy is still 10am, and she says she won't leave until 11. I don't have time to argue with her, so I go back to the front office and check our website, and WHAT DO YOU KNOW, it doesn't list the check in or check out times ANYWHERE! My boss has changed the hours so many times over the years that she took them off the website entirely because she didn't want to keep editing it!

10:45, I'm filing some paperwork and the lady storms up to the front office and begins rapping on the glass as hard as she can, ignoring the doorbell that says "please ring for service." I let her in, and she starts YELLING about how she's a local, she works at the bar down the street, she's BEST FRIENDS with by boss, and she's been staying here for the last 30 out of her 60 years, and checkout has always been 11, and she doesn't appreciate being woken up early. So I tell her again that checkout is at 10, and has been for over two years, and she tells me to change the website. So I look her right in the eye and say "I just checked the website. It doesn't list the checkout times at all." She scoffs, and I say "if you can pull up our website right now on your phone and show me where it says 11, I'll honor that." And she scoffs again and says it doesn't matter.

"It does matter."

"No it doesn't, even if it says 10 I would have requested a late checkout for 11."

"We don't offer late checkouts. That's our policy, and if you don't like it you can take it up with my boss."

And she goes off on me about how our hours are "really fucking shady," because check in starts at 4pm and check out is by 10am. "What kind of a hotel checks you out at 10? We're supposed to get 24 hours."

"Ma'am, no hotel in America gives you 24 hours."

"Yes they do! Noon to noon!"

"When do you expect the maids to clean the room? If check out is at noon, and check in is at noon, when do the maids clean it? We have 24 rooms, and only 3 maids, they need time to clean them all, unless you want to check into a dirty room that someone just left."

"That's not my problem, I'm PAYING for 24 hours!"

"If you don't like it, you can always stay somewhere else."

"I am," and she storms out of the office without closing the door.

I held my tongue, but it still felt good to stand my ground. No more hospitality. No more Mr. Nice Milo. If you give me shit, I will match your energy. I could have cursed her out, but I rather like having a job, so I just treated her the way she treated me, like an idiot who needs to be talked down to. Lie to my face, will you? Fuck off. We have the lowest prices not just in town but on the entire 110 mile stretch of the Florida Keys, from Key Largo to Key West. If you don't like our policies, you can feel free to stay at another motel that charges twice as much as us, or a hotel that charges five times as much as us, or one of the resorts that charges ten or fifteen times as much as us. You have options! We offer a bed to sleep in and a roof over your head for dirt cheap, plus the cleanest rooms you'll find in Florida (we're the only motel that still cares about covid, and we spray disinfectant in all the rooms every day), no more, no less.

Don't get short with me, bitch. I will fucking end you. You wanna go? Let's go! I'm not holding back anymore. Wanna be an asshole and give me shit? I will shit in your car! I will shit right in the gas tank! Am I being metaphorical? I don't even know! Try me.

I'd like to remind everyone of a couple things that I was very, very painfully reminded of today.

people who work at the store are people too.

if you would like some help with something, please ask politely. do not just gesture and act like we are animals you can call over by snapping.

put carts back where they belong, not in random places in the parking lot.

do not walk in the middle of the parking lot when the sidewalk is right next to you.

don't say "lemme give you something to do" to someone, it's likely that a. they're actually already doing something and are either waiting for someone / something, or taking a break from doing something.

please don't leave big trash in your carts if you can help it.

please be patient with your cashier, chances are they might be new, or don't have the clearance to do what you'd want them to do. they're there to help you, don't be rude to them. please. most of the time, they're doing their best, I promise. that's not to say don't ask if you need something, just please be kind.

people have to live in tourist towns too.

please, please drive safely. especially in small towns.

is this gonna make people upset? sure. but the biggest message is please, please don't be rude to customer service people. especially with how difficult this summer has been heat and tourist season wise. most small town places are very, very understaffed and are doing their best.

Carl Hiaasen is incredibly guilty of being a Man Writing Women but I’ll forgive it because I’ve never read a more compelling villain than Skip Wiley

"Scenes Among the Thousand Islands," St. Catharines Standard. July 24, 1912. Page 7.

Let's set the scene, I've been working for 2 weeks straight, it's supposed to be my day off but there's a street faire today so I have have to come in and open. I get to work and some fucking clump has parked their RV so they take up all three spots that are supposed to be set aside for our employees. Now I have to park way down the street and walk. If anyone needs me I will be screeching into the void.

hi!! i'm really sorry if you've talked about this somewhere before but my friends and i recently discovered tourist season and we love love love the writing and are so sad its unfinished. are you planning on ever updating? again, sorry if this is a bother, i don't want to sound pushy at all we're just super curious!! :)

Hi! I love that story very very much and would love to finish it -- I just kind of chip away at things as inspiration strikes, so I don't know exactly when I will finish it, but it's definitely on my list! No worries at all, and thank you! 🖤

I feel like there's something to be done with humans are space orcs/earth is a deathworld content and opportunistic diets. And obligate diets too.

Obligate diets mean they have to eat somthing because it's the only thing that provides the nutrients they need. Cats are obligate carnivores. They need meat and almost entirely meat to meet their nutritional needs. Any plant matter they eat is for other purposes, like digestion or getting high.

Wolves a facultative carnivores. They are carnivores, they need mostly meat to survive, but they'll eat fruit and other plant matter given the opportunity and gain nutritional value from it. They will always choose meat given the option.

Dogs are omnivores. When they were domesticated they evolved to line up more with the human diet. They need meat as well as vegetables and starches.

Then there's opportunistic carnivores (the most fun one). Herbivores who will eat meat given the chance. This famously includes horses (horses love corpses). They do not need it at all, but they can digest it and will definitly eat it. I've seen some people who have horses claim that some of them gain a taste for meat and seek it out. This label also includes deer, goats, cows, and hippos. (Also pandas, but like, that's kinda expected.)

I feel like it can be twisted in a lot of ways for wtf alien reactions. I also find if really interesting that there are no 100% one way or another mammals.

It's like, I can tell the tourists apart from the locals by how much and how long they stare at me with my cane, as if I'm an exotic animal in a zoo.

But then again, maybe it's not me, because tourists do stare at everything.

Work retreat beeyooooootch!!!!

My partner, several friends and I did a photoshoot for my bday yesterday c: I feel weird posting cosplay stuff on tumblr still, so here’s these for now

Bonus. They are friends

Scudworth | Photographer

The most unrealistic part of Heartstopper isn't that everyone is gay, it's that they didn't have to wait in a two-hour-long queue to see the Mona Lisa

Arthur.. arthur I don't mean to alarm you but there is a giant green lady standing out in the middle of the harbor on a platform... what is she? Some sort of goddess? Should we hide? There's a sewer you could probably fit in over to your left WHY ARE YOU LAUGHINH ARTHUR SHES LOOKING RIGHT AT US

maybe i'll go to a museum by myself tomorrow