Late one evening, the front desk clerk at a hotel received a phone call.
“Front desk,” he answered politely. “How may I help you, sir?”
A nervous voice replied:
“Yes, I’m staying in room 858. You need to send someone up here immediately!”
Concerned, the clerk asked, “What seems to be the problem?”
The guest lowered his voice and said:
“My wife and I are having a terrible argument, and now she says she’s going to jump out of the window!”
The clerk paused awkwardly before responding:
“I’m very sorry, sir, but that sounds like a personal matter between you and your wife.”
There was a brief silence on the line.
Then the guest shouted:
“Listen, you idiot!”
“The window won’t open… and that’s clearly a maintenance issue.”
