I worked housekeeping at a small hotel where most guests stayed only a night or two.<\/p>\n
Then a man named Robert checked in for nearly a month.<\/p>\n
He was quiet, polite, and always kept his room unusually tidy. We spoke almost every morning when I came by with fresh towels.<\/p>\n
On his final day, he stopped at the front desk before leaving.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t leave a tip on the table,\u201d he told me. \u201cCheck the bottom drawer of the nightstand.\u201d<\/p>\n
I thanked him and assumed he had left twenty dollars.<\/p>\n
When I went upstairs, I opened the drawer and found a sealed envelope with my name written across it.<\/p>\n
Inside was $1,200 and a handwritten note.<\/p>\n
Robert explained that he had been staying at the hotel while receiving treatment at a nearby hospital.<\/p>\n
During those difficult weeks, he said my small conversations had been one of the few normal parts of his day.<\/p>\n
Then he wrote:<\/p>\n
\u201cYou never treated me like a sick man. You just asked how I liked my coffee and complained about the weather with me. I needed that more than you knew.\u201d<\/p>\n
I immediately went downstairs, hoping to catch him.<\/p>\n
He was already gone.<\/p>\n
Months later, Robert mailed the hotel a Christmas card.<\/p>\n
His treatment had worked.<\/p>\n
I still have his original note.<\/p>\n
He probably thought he was thanking me for cleaning a room.<\/p>\n
I hadn\u2019t realized that simply treating someone normally during the hardest month of their life could mean so much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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