Some interesting Uber passengers this week (so far). Picked up a lady from the Renaissance Hotel in downtown Phoenix. She was there on business, she is a corporate trainer for Marriot, and the Renaissance is part of the Marriot chain. I used to work in hospitality many moons ago so we started chatting about this and that. She is a corporate trainer and has worked in many capacities in the hotel business. I was telling her about some weird stuff I encountered especially on the night shift. So she was telling me that one time when she was MOD (Manager on Duty) at a Marriot the housekeepers found a dead man in the room. He had committed suicide. The housekeepers were mainly from the Caribbean and very superstitious and refused to clean the room or any on that floor because it was now haunted by the spirit of this man. So, my girl has to request a work order from purchasing for the services of a Santeria Priest to cleanse the floor of this ghost or the 25th floor would never be cleaned again. She got names from the housekeepers and called around to get quotes. So, just so y’all know, the going rate for the services of a witch doctor to cleanse a place of a ghost is roughly $1000. So start saving. My momma died at home and I reckon she’s still there because we never got anyone to hold a séance. She was in her own bed and when I came home that afternoon the bed had of course been stripped. I made it up and slept in it that night, I have no fear of ghosts, not even of my ow mother though she was pretty scary in life. So during the night, the light on the bed stand switched on by itself. I of course woke up and thought Hmmmmm….. then switched it back off. It was one of those lams where you just touch the glass and brass shade and it turns on or off. So a few minutes pass and the thing switches back on again. I wonder a bit then switch it back off. I was actually beginning to think that she was there. The next morning I mention this to my brother and he says, yeah, that lamp has a short or something ‘cause mom would bitch about the damn thing randomly tuning on or off by itself.
That was a relief, saved $1000.
Until the next adventure
The Scuba Jedi