If you think your job gets wacky, check out the weirdest hotel guest requests courtesy of hotel employees who have confessed their clients’ strangest demands. Thanks to Reddit, the loose-lipped employees will make you a little more appreciative of that boring morning meeting.

Foul Play

“In the summer, this one lady was staying with us by herself. She came up and asked for the closest petting zoo. I asked how old her kids were so I could better refer her or suggest other activities (as I wasn’t sure there even was a petting zoo close by). She said it was just her. Well I found her a local farm that would let kids come to pet the animals. She went, and came back, and talked to me for an hour on how she pet the chickens.“

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Things Aren’t Always What They Seem

“I work night shift at a Holiday Inn Express, and one time this old man came through and he was being really rude. No big deal, that stuff happens all the time. Guy goes to his room and doesn’t know how to use a thermostat, so he calls the front desk and yells at me for having a complicated thermostat (the thermostat has a total of three buttons: two for changing the temperature up/down, and one for changing from A/C to heat). So, I go to his room and show him how to use it while he mutters and grumbles, and head back to the front desk.

Around 15 minutes later, I get a call from the guy again. This time he’s furious because he doesn’t know how to work the remote. I tell him I’ll be right there (fortunately his room was like three seconds from the front desk). He hands me the remote, I press the big red POWER button and lo, the television comes on. He grumbles angrily about something, and I go back to the front desk.

Don’t hear from the guy again until around 4:30a.m. He comes to the front desk, and quietly asks if I’ll tie his shoes for him. If this guy were a day under 50, I’d just assume the guy was being a (jerk) and refuse, but I said sure and hopped over the desk and tied his shoes for him. He then explained that he’d had a stroke or something relatively recently and it made it extremely difficult for him to tie his shoes, and we went on to talk for probably twenty minutes. He was actually an alright guy, just really quick to get flustered. Also, totally bewildered by buttons.“

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Any Port in a Storm

“Worked front desk at a hotel next to an airport. A bunch of flights were canceled so we were sold out. Guy came in looking for a room. He didn’t believe that we were full so as a joke I told him “unless he wanted to sleep in a closet we were sold out”. He paid me $50 and took our storage closet.“

The Dam Has a Silent Mode, Right?

“A guest called to tell us to call the city and tell them to “shut it off” because she wanted to sleep with the window open but the dam was making too much noise.“

Do you work in an industry that requires you to accommodate to people’s needs? Share your crazy stories in the comment section below.