eleven hours

so.....some one decided to get in their car and take out a power pole right before my lunch break yesterday.  on the complete opposite side of town from my apartment.  for whatever reason, this meant that i would not get any power for the following eleven hours.  never mind that the light in the stupid parking lot right next to my complex were working just fine, my apartment complex was just fucked.  so luckily i was at work for a few hours, and then a work dinner for a few more hours.  when i got back from that i still didn't have power, so alex said i could come hang out with him at his work since he was the only one there.  got to see some pretty interesting people there (he works at a hotel).  one lady kept complaining about how the only restaurants near the hotel were not very vegetarian friendly,  because you know, apparently that was his fault.  she was also all upset that apparently nothing was close enough for her to walk to.  because you know, that was totally his fault also.  she also came back about ten minutes later because she wanted to change rooms because her's was too close to the stairs, but she didn't want to be moved to a room that had a view of the street.  the next crazy lady was some woman who came in and asked to be upgraded to a suit.  alex started to tell her the cost for that, but she cut him off and said she wanted to be upgraded for free.  when he told her that he couldn't do it for free, she got all pissy, and kept repeating that she had got that done here before, and wanted to know why he wouldn't do that for her now.  when he explained that it has never been a policy of the hotel to upgrade for free, she started going on about how it says they can do that on the website.  which it doesn't.  i check when i got home.  the only things that are free are breakfast, dvd rentals and wifi.  the third group was three overly bleached, overly tanned girls who rented harry potter and then couldn't figure out how to use the dvd player.  after a night of watching all this, it just makes me glad that i no longer work at a returns desk.