Gina's Case Study

Midnight shifts as the hotel operator gave Gina the time to finish her college homework in time for her 8:30AM class.

This night, she was cramming for her final exam in Psych 340, and it wasn't exactly smooth sledding for a girl whose corn-popping nerves were her worst enemy during written tests.

It was nearing 7am and she slid the notebook in front of her and flopped the cover open, onto the desk.


"What the hell?!," she thought aloud when she saw that 43 of the hotel's 110 rooms had 7:50AM wake-up call requests, each expected to be made, personally, by hers-truly, and within a 3-minute margin of the request.

She grabbed the clipboard from its hanger and realized there was a convention in-house, and began a belly laugh she was wont to stop, one that grew as layers of test anxiety layered off.

Wouldn't the dining room staff go crazy when all these 7:50AM wake-ups from the Association of Southwestern Psychics & Clairvoyants arrived at the hostess desk, simultaneously, and once seated, ordered the same omelette with sourdough toast.