@missy @rambo
'O-Mi Motel.'
And it looked every bit like every trash motel you see in the movies or on TV. It had 2 levels with a central parking lot that all the rooms faced.
14. I was 14 when I got my first real job. It was just a part time weekend thing to make some extra cash and the hours were 10PM to 6AM.
I got $2 for every room I cleaned. And on most nights I'd come out of there with $120. A lot of money to a 14 year old kid.
Now this motel was nasty. It was basically a sex motel where most people would rent out a room for a few hours. You had a few permanent residents and some over nighters.
It was the first time I'd seen so many damn condoms. The first place I had met a cross dresser and a transsexual on many different occasions. Oh, and you had your pedophiles there too. They were easy to pick out. Their lines always started out to me, "Hey kid. I got some drugs in my room, you want to try some?" My answer was always, "Fuck off!"
You might be asking yourself, with all that shit going on there, why'd your parents let a 14 yr old kid work a graveyard shift at a motel? The answer is simple, my mom worked the front desk.
I worked there for one summer till a crazy incident happened that changed all that.
I had just finished cleaning a room on the second floor and was passing a transvestite that was standing there smoking a cigarette and staring at the office windows. Then I finally heard some sort of commotion coming from the office. I said, "What's going on?"
"Honey. There's some shit going on right there."
There was this huge, just massive woman in the front door office area stabbing this scrawny little dude with a knife. And people say when they see shit like this it feels like your watching a movie. And it's true. You feel somewhat detached and you almost don't believe it's happening.
I was like, "What the fuck?"
"Yah honey, that's exactly what I was saying."
I see my mom come out of her bullet proof glass enclosure to stop this woman. This lady picks up a glass ashtray any pops my mom on top of the head with it. Little glass pieces shower the room.
Then this lady leaves the office and heads for her room near the back of the motel. Comes out with a small bundle and throws it over the wall along with bloody knife. Runs down to her car and starts it up.
"Did you see where the little dude went?"
"Honey, he right there trying to cross the street."
I look down and I see the dude limping across the street,trailing blood towards a pay phone in front of another motel. I hear a loud crash behind me and that crazy ass woman is trying to get out of the parking lot but she is hitting every car there like it was bumper cars. She eventually makes her way to the entrance and spots her man at a pay phone across the street.
She guns it. Tires are squeeling like crazy. Smoke everywhere. She aims the car straight at him. That guy must have seen her cause he barely jumped out of the way. She smashed through the pay phone and the proceeds to hit more cars in their parking lot before she finally crashes into a room. Where her car hits the side of a bed and I can see 2 people there fucking get thrown further into the room. Moments later both those occupants came out of that room with towels wrapped around themselves. That massive lady got out and just started booking it down the street.
I looked at the teanvestite standing next to me and said, "Did I just see that?"
"Yah you did honey."
My mom was fine, but that was the last time she or I worked there.
