Short Story Of Japes

and Japes were the rookies to this game, and although they kept from passing out they had no clue how to play the exotic poker games continuously introduced. Shekelhound, like a hawk with his eye on all participants, made certain the pot remained properly anted and that everyone received the correct payout. He hated a cheater and he usually won the most money.
The perspective of these professionals, both fascinating and refreshing to Japes, opened his eyes. Highly respected and working with many different people on a regular basis paled to the exposure Japes enjoyed with literally hundreds of thousands of patrons during his hoteliers life giving him a distinctive background. A relatively mundane story to Japes concerning hotel behavior triggered …show more content…
The front office, Japes forte and where he got his start in the business, was managed by a bunch of kids. Although All-in did the best he could to oversee this group it became painfully obvious to Japes that they left a lot of money on the table. The youngest of the bunch, Cleopatra, an attractive server who over the next ten years would run the front office, had a lot going for her and worked her way up from a vocational school with high recommendations from her professors. Her story would be typical of every potentially talented young manager that Japes encountered during his tenure at the Crossroads. Like most good-looking twenty-year-olds Cleopatra courted a boyfriend who pursued her wherever she went. Unfortunately, due to the circumstances surrounding many of the servers in that community, even at her humble earnings she became the breadwinner. Inevitably, she got pregnant and gave birth to a beautiful baby out of wedlock. A well-known story rumored that her boyfriend, a drug dealer, placed her into compromising situations. She eventually would leave the partner, but engaged hotel resources in her subculture for many shakey transactions. The biggest pimp in the area constantly tried to get Cleopatra to join his stable. She never succumbed to his pursuit, but arrangements were made so that his existing stable could walk the halls and use the guest rooms for free. Never a pimp, she did, however, enable him to push twenty-dollar hookers throughout the hotel. A far cry from what Japes experienced thirty years ago when he started