The creepy hotel owner who thought he could, written by Dalmatian mom. I'm a South American woman. I've been living in the states for about 11 years now.

And I first moved to Colorado when I was 21, to the small mountain town of Silverthorne.

I was recruited by an exchange student program for college students in South America to come to the USA,

work, and travel during spring break in the South.

And up to that point I had never seen snow in my life.

So I was extremely excited to be living in a cold snowy place for once.

I was going to be working at a very popular hotel in the town of Frisco,

not too far from the hostel I was living in. And the hostel itself had its own creepy stories, but I won't talk about them in details at the moment.

Maybe that will be for later, perhaps.

So far I didn't know exactly what kind of job I would be doing in the hotel.

All I knew was that I was supposed to show up there on a certain date and time to talk to the

owner and Ukrainian American guy that was probably in his mid 40s back then.

So I show up, introduce myself with the basic English I had at the time and tell him I'm excited to start working there.

He gives me a weird long stare, almost as if he was analyzing me. He was a tall man with very pronounced eyebrows. So that kind of

creaked me out for a second. He then showed me the restaurant and said that I'll be working there as a hostess besides delivering room service orders

Now I really didn't think my English was that good to be working in close contact with the public back then. I thought I'll be working

at the back of the house or doing some sort of housekeeping, but he insisted.

For those who are familiar with that area, this part of Colorado was not too far from the

veil, so it's needless to say that they get very, very busy there during ski season, and I was dealing with customers from all over the world.

And that's when I also started helping out as a server during breakfast.

And of course, we'd get lots of orders wrong about my lack of English which made

the owner very mad. I remember one time that my coworker and friend was taking

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