Received the email below from a friend, she is clever enough to save herself out of potential problem. Good lesson to learn from her. Read on ....
Be Careful when in
hotel lift - my experience today at One World Hotel
Worth keeping this at
the back of your mind.
When I pressed for
the lift at the lobby and there was a Negro looking young man dressed in the
traditional Malay gear with songkok, he could easily passed off as one of the
staff at the hotel . When I entered the lift, he also went in.
I waited for him to
press the button to his floor but he did not and just stood there as if waiting
for me to slot in my key card.
I asked him which
floor he was going to and he told me 8th floor. I told him that he has to press
the 8th floor button himself (I was
actually testing him to see if he was indeed a resident of the hotel and if he
was a hotel staff, he would have pressed floors which the public could accessed) .
He did not take his
key card out but just pressed the 8th floor button and obviously it did not
register.
I told him that he
has to use his card key to press the button but he claimed that he has 3 rooms
on the 8th floor and his key cards are
all in his room.
At that point of
time, I quickly pressed the door open and said very loudly that he cannot go up
without a key and when the door opened, he ran out.
Moral of the story
especially those who are travelling alone - I usually don’t slot in my card key first if I am alone with
one or two guests in the lifts. I
usually observe if everyone has a key because you don’t know who is really a
guest and who is actually following you.
When they don’t press the button, I
usually walk out of the lift. In this case, if I had slotted in the card key
and
then pressed the
button to my floor, the lift would be moving and there is no way I could escape
if i had to. If he does not do anything
in the lift, he could have followed me and get out at the same floor and forced
me to open my room or even snatched the
key from me while in the lift. So please be careful when you are travelling and
esp in the hotel. I cannot imagine what would
have happened if I had
not been observant or being a seasoned traveller usually I am on my guard all
the time and by being alert of people
around me.
The guy obviously had
some plans in mind :-(( And today I am truly blessed that God was watching over
me and protected me!
Be Careful when in
hotel lift - my experience today at One World Hotel
When I pressed for
the lift at the lobby and there was a Negro looking young man dressed in the
traditional Malay gear with songkok, he could easily passed off as one of the
staff at the hotel . When I entered the lift, he also went in.
I waited for him to
press the button to his floor but he did not and just stood there as if waiting
for me to slot in my key card.
I asked him which
floor he was going to and he told me 8th floor. I told him that he has to press
the 8th floor button himself (I was
actually testing him to see if he was indeed a resident of the hotel and if he
was a hotel staff, he would have pressed floors which the public could accessed) .
He did not take his
key card out but just pressed the 8th floor button and obviously it did not
register.
I told him that he
has to use his card key to press the button but he claimed that he has 3 rooms
on the 8th floor and his key cards are
all in his room.
At that point of
time, I quickly pressed the door open and said very loudly that he cannot go up
without a key and when the door opened, he ran out.
Moral of the story
especially those who are travelling alone - I usually don’t slot in my card key first if I am alone with
one or two guests in the lifts. I
usually observe if everyone has a key because you don’t know who is really a
guest and who is actually following you.
When they don’t press the button, I
usually walk out of the lift. In this case, if I had slotted in the card key
and
then pressed the
button to my floor, the lift would be moving and there is no way I could escape
if i had to. If he does not do anything
in the lift, he could have followed me and get out at the same floor and forced
me to open my room or even snatched the
key from me while in the lift. So please be careful when you are travelling and
esp in the hotel. I cannot imagine what would
have happened if I had
not been observant or being a seasoned traveller usually I am on my guard all
the time and by being alert of people
around me.
The guy obviously had
some plans in mind :-(( And today I am truly blessed that God was watching over
me and protected me!
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