vaseline and disgruntled chambermaids
When she was a surly teenager, Mer worked as a chambermaid along with her brother at the Candlelight Motor Lodge in beautiful downtown Greenfield, MA.
She has stories of the place, including the time they went into the room and found a dead deer from someone's hunting trip bleeding in the bathtub.
But her weirdest story is of the time an undescript man (she doesn't remember what he looks like) checked out -- and she went in to clean the room only to find that the entire room had been covered in a brown-green smoky goo. It took the entire staff, including Mer and her brother, all day to clean the room.
Well, I'm relieved to say that the Vaseline Bandit has been brought to justice. Mer isn't sure whether it's the same guy all these years later.
But at our house we just call it Thursday night.