Differently rated hotels certainly each attract a different type of clientele, but all are still susceptible to positively bizarre interactions across the board. And more often than not? It’s the front desk staff that are stuck with cleaning up the mess.

How would you handle a very strange couple making a scene in your hotel lobby? One person recently shared a wild story like this with Reddit. Here’s what happened.

Do you ever play “guess the guests”? Because we do… 😅

So me and my colleagues at the front desk have this little “game” where we try to guess how guests are related or what they’re here for.

Tell me we’re not the only ones??

Today we had a very interesting situation.

At a hotel? Can only imagine…

A couple checked in, and the woman looked a bit older than the guy, wearing this electric blue gymnastics outfit, very noticeable and a small dog on a leash.

Right after check-in, she kept going back and forth between the room, reception, and the garden and the parking.

At first we were like, okay, normal, probably grabbing stuff from the car.

Oh, yikes.

But… we never saw the guy.

Fast forward like two hours, and suddenly the guy comes down with some bags.

Immediately I look at my colleague and go, “I bet you he’s leaving.”

Bingo.

Something big must have gone down with those two.

About 15 minutes later, he comes down again with a big suitcase and tells us he’s checking out and leaving and go take a seat by the sofas.

Then she comes down from the elevator, sees him sitting there, turns to us and says, “he’s leaving,” like we’re the audience to this whole thing and he doesn’t even acknowledge her. Doesn’t look up, doesn’t react, nothing.

She just walks off again with the dog.

At this point we’re like… oh, this is definitely not a normal stay.

This all screamed “bizarre” from the start.

He asks us to call a cab and goes outside to wait.

My colleague goes, “maybe they had a fight?” and I’m like… maybe?? 😭

The taxi takes a bit to arrive, and right before it leaves, she comes back again, sees him outside, and they start arguing.

The taxi driver is literally there with the trunk open just watching the whole thing unfold.

What else is there to say?

Finally, he just stops responding, gets into the cab, and leaves.

And we’re just standing there like… well.

That escalated quickly.

Anyone else have stories like this? I swear working front desk feels like watching live reality TV sometimes.

All the same drama without the comfort of your living room. Let’s see what the good people of Reddit had to say about this one.

This person could immediately relate all too well.

Another person in retail shared similar coping mechanisms.

Though a few were more intense than others about it.

If you enjoyed this post, check out this story about a landlord who is confused about how to return a despot since the tenant doesn’t ever want to contact them again.

One person shared their own insane story.

But others shared a reminder that to others, this was more than a game.

Whatever makes those night shifts go by…