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Tiffany nods. “The manager position is basically a Karen tamer.”
“Can we stop with the whole Karen thing?” I say with a frustrated breath.
They both look at me with blank faces. Having them on either side of my chair, staring at me with the same brown eyes, behind the same round black-rimmed glasses, with the same black hair cut and styled into the same bob makes me think there’s a glitch in the Matrix.
As far as I can tell, these twins have the same look, the same personality, and might just be clones of each other. If it weren’t for their nametags, I would never know who was who.
“My sister’s name is Karen, okay?” I say as they both stare at me like I’m not making any sense. “And I think thatweas a collective society need to move on. We had our fun with the name, and Karens were a good sport about it, but it’s time to let it go.”
Tina snorts out a laugh. “Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk,” she says in a horrible imitation of me.
“You mean, thank you for coming to my Karen Talk,” Tiffany corrects.
They both laugh. I don’t.
“Are you a Karen spokesperson?” Tiffany asks.
“What? No. That’s not even a thing.”
“I think her name is secretly Karen,” Tina says. “Can we see your birth certificate?”
“No,” I say, getting flustered. They always do this. They’re so annoying. I sit between them and they just make fun of me and get me riled up all day. I feel like a ping pong ball they’re batting back and forth.
“My name is Lauren Hurst.”
“Lauren Karen Hurst?”
“Karen Lauren Hurst?”
“Stop it,” I say in a firm voice. “I have an important guest coming and I have to concentrate.”
I take a deep breath to calm my nerves as I open the reservation program on the computer.
“The important guest in the Aspen Suite?” Tina asks.
I don’t want to get sucked into their trap, but I nod. “Yes.”
“Who is it?” Tiffany asks. “There’s no credit card on the account.”
“That’s because I comped it.”
They both give each other big juicy smiles like they just found out something scandalous. My stomach rumbles with worry.
Maybe this wasn’t such a good idea after all…
Yes, it was,I tell myself in a confident voice.You want the manager position? You have to stand out and take some initiative.
And I do want the manager position. Badly.
I’ve only been here for ten days and I’m desperate to prove that I can handle it.
“Let me get this straight,” Tiffany says slowly. “You comped the ten thousand dollar a night Aspen Suite?”
“Yes, I did.”
“Did Mr. Wallis okay it?”
“I didn’t ask him.”
