So I picked up this part-time job to make some extra money...My Dad turned me on to the idea...Well let me tell you it ain't all roses and kid shows. I roam the grounds looking for perpertrators and vending machine thieves. I just started this job and it's probably a good idea that my career as a security guard is winding to a close.
The first night I was real ambitious...I had my keys at the ready...I paced the perimeter every 45 minutes...I fought to stay awake the whole night...I asked if I was doing everything I should be and was told the other spends a lot of time in his car.
So the next night I was going to be the exemplary security guard...I had been spending the time I wasn't patrolling in the lobby...I should have spent that time watching the hotel from my car...So I did that on night two...until about 4AM when it became very difficult to keep my eyes open...I fought with myself...held my eyes open with my fingers...and then I discovered what the other security guard had been doing in his car...He'd been sleeping the whole time!
Night three it was like I had been hotel security for years...I walked in wrote in the log and walked to my car to take that 45 minute nap...Even though I am now a pro at this job it still is hard to patrol the last few hours...I end up looking more like a character from a bad zombie movie than I do a protector of the peace.
In two more nights I will be saying farewell to this possible future for me and move on to my next new career as a groundskeeper.
Me at the Comfort Inn around 5:34AM
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