This is a true story.
It is not about body shaming.
It just happened. That's all.
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about my move to Key West and the opening of Eaton Lodge guest house. I publish this blog on two sites and a couple of readers asked for more tales of events that happened there - kinda like the stories you would watch on the Bob Newhart Show.
We opened for business on Valentines weekend in 1994. The guesthouse sat vacant and boarded up for two years while it was in foreclosure. We bought it in October at public auction; moved in the last week of December 1993; started cleaning and fixing things in January; and opened Valentines weekend. We went from five rooms the first couple of days to capacity within a week. We stayed full until May and then stayed near full through most of the summer and fall.
The guest house was and is still located about 200 feet east of Duval Street. We quickly discovered people would drive down to Key West from Miami without a reservation. The guest house is located on one of two streets that lead directly to Duval. Half the cars would pass by. People might see the vacancy side. Or they might have just seen the glory of the old house and said I want to stay there.
A mother and daughter showed up. The daughter had to be in her late 20s or 30s. Both were tall and really, really big. They stayed in room 5 on the second floor west front for several days. A day or two after they arrived we noticed a drip coming though the ceiling under their bathroom. The metal drain at the bottom of the fiberglass shower had popped. Water seeped through. That had not happened before. We presumed it was from all of their weight. We fixed the leak. They said nothing about that event or any thing else other than how much they loved their stay at Eaton Lodge.
Even though we had two full time maids, my partner or I would help clean rooms on days we had massive checkouts as we would have corresponding check-ins the same day. One of us cleaned room 5 and saw that the toilet seat had broken and was no longer attached to the toilet bowl. We asked the maid (actually a man) when this happened. He said on the first day of the ladies stay. He said they were too fat and deserved - It. They sat on the toilet without a seat for their entire stay. We fired him.
It is funny, like in Newhart. It is sad, like in real life. At least they enjoyed their stay.
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