I am a Night Manager at a boutique hotel and residence in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada.  Needless to say I come upon some serious and not so serious situations in the middle of the night.  Sometimes you laugh and sometimes you want to pull your hair out!  We have had every sort of person from every walk of life in our hotel and most make you smile.   Some not so much!

One night I walked out into the lobby from my office off the front desk, only to find pools of blood everywhere!  After my first reaction, which was, “What the hell?” I asked my security if he could trace it to a source.  The blood was pooled from the front door, through the main lobby, to the front of the elevators, inside one of the elevators and all the way up to what turned out to be the 21st floor.  He knocked to see if anyone was bleeding to death and a wee voice came from behind the door…. “She is ok, just a cut on her foot.”  The blood was of such quantity that my security was extremely concerned and called me up on the radio to come to the 21st floor.

My security waited for me to arrive with back up, my bartender who knew the 2 girls locked inside the suite.  As we whispered outside their door, making plans to get into the suite my security knocked again, this time insisting that we all come in.   Finally a blonde head comes and peeks around the door.  “She’s ok, just a small cut on her foot.”  She repeats once again.

“I would like to see her for my self; there is a lot of blood in my lobby, elevator and all over this floor to be just a small cut on her foot.”  I insist and we pushed our way in.

It turned out that we all knew the blonde who was protecting her friend so fervently.  She was our resident exotic dancer/prostitute that leased a suite on the 21st floor.  Now I can’t be judgmental here, as I have never seen her perform any of the above duties but it had been confirmed by a number of men in the building that were all too familiar with the 21st floor…and if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck…guess what?  It’s a duck!