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The only bed in town 意外的回报

"One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness, for it is usually returned." - Mark Ortman

With several major conventions in town, there was not a room to be rented anywhere. When an elderly couple walked in out of the cold rain, the desk clerk knew they would never find 1)lodging. In an act of kindness, he offered them the only bed in town, his own bed.

The couple at first refused, but through reason and kindness, he persuaded the couple to accept his offer. When they checked out the next morning, the elderly gentleman said to the desk clerk, "You are the kind of person who should be managing the best hotel in the United States. Maybe someday I'll build one." They 2)chuckled about that and the elderly couple left.

The incident and the elderly couple were forgotten by the desk clerk until two years later when he received a letter from the old man requesting he come up to New York and see him. There was a round-trip airline ticket with the letter.

The desk clerk thought, "Why not?" and took the flight to New York. The old man met him at the airport and immediately took him to a construction site to show him an enormous 3)castle-like structure being built there.

"That," 4)proclaimed the old man, "is the hotel I'm building for you to manage!"

The old man was William Waldorf Astor, and the hotel would soon be known as the Waldorf-Astoria. The former desk clerk, George C. Boldt, became the first manager.



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