One stormy night many years ago, an elderly gentleman and his wife entered the lobby of a small hotel in Philadelphia.
Trying to get out of rain, the couple approached the front desk hoping to get some shelter for the night.
"Could you possibly give us a room here?" the husband asked.
The clerk, a friendly man with a winning smile, looked at the couple and explained that there were three conventions in town. "All
of our rooms are taken," the clerk said. "But I can't send a nice
couple like you out into the rain at one o'clock in the morning. Would
you perhaps be willing to sleep in my room? It's not exactly a suite,
but it will be good enough to make you folks comfortable for the night."
When
the couple declined, the young man pressed on. "Don't worry about me;
I'll be just fine here in the office," the clerk told them. So the
couple agreed.
As
the elderly man paid his bill the next morning, he said to the clerk,
"You are the kind of manager who should be the boss of the best hotel in
the United States. Maybe someday I'll build one
for you."
The clerk looked at them and smiled. The three of them had a good laugh.
As
they drove away, the elderly couple agreed that the helpful clerk was
indeed exceptional; finding people who are both friendly and helpful
isn't easy.
Two years passed. The clerk had almost forgotten the incident when he received a letter from the old man.
It recalled that stormy night and enclosed a round-trip ticket to New York, asking him to pay them a visit.
The
old man met him in New York, and led him to the corner of Fifth Avenue
and 34th Street. He then pointed to a great new building there, a palace
of reddish stone, with turrets and watchtowers
thrusting up to the sky. "That," said the older man, "is the hotel I have just built for you to manage."
"You must be joking," the young man said.
"I can assure you I am not," said the older man, a sly smile playing around his mouth.
This
young clerk never foresaw the turn of events that would lead him to
become the manager of one of the world's most glamorous hotels.
Moral:
"We are not to turn our backs on those who are in need, for we might be entertaining angels".
Life is more accurately measured by the lives you touch than the things you acquire.
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