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Raise Your Hand If You Wish You’d Been There

20-something tall black bellhop: I challenge you, right now, to a salsa dance-off.
70-year-old short Latino bellhop: Go get a radio.

–Peninsula Hotel

Overheard by: Carol

  • Posted on July 6, 2008
  • Black People, Coworkers, Dancing, Default, Hotels, Latinos, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Music, Offers and requests, Old People
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