In college I worked at a crappy little roadside motel in a tourist town. We had all sorts of guests - travelers, homeless looking for a night’s stay, families down on their luck, tourists. The staff was mainly college kids, and given the college and by default the motel were less than an hour from the Navajo reservation, many of my co-workers were Native American.

One afternoon a couple checks in, totally seem fine. About an hour later, the husband calls in raging mad yelling that ‘there’s indians everywhere!’ Stunned, I didn’t know what to say - I was trying to figure out what the heck he was talking about, my brain kept saying that he must be saying something else. Granted, I was 20, if I was my age now, I would have had the courage to react much more strongly.

That was just the start of it. He got blazing drunk at some point in his stay and stormed the office, yelling all sorts of racist and sexist nonsense. He insulted the Native American staff and guests, he tried to pay a female housekeeper to have sex with him, he ranted and raged around the parking lot while the wife was nowhere to be seen.

We called the cops, but in a small town the cops were a couple of guys in a broken down police cruiser.

The guy and his wife (who mysteriously reappeared around 1am) were eventually and successfully evicted from the premises, not after screaming threats to everyone and delivering a whole new set of racist, horrible garbage.

Basically the worst motel guest EVER.

He had to write down a mailing address upon check-in. We kept the mailing address on a sticky note behind the desk for nearly a year. We signed him up for every mailing list, every free offer for coupons, we put his name and address in myriad ‘please contact me’ boxes as they popped up. We entered his name and address to basically everything that promised it would bury you in junk mail. One of my co-workers even signed him up for prisoner correspondence. It wasn’t nice and likely not very legal, but it provided a bit of levity to the situation. I suppose it is possible it was a fake address and some poor sap had to deal with a bunch of ticked off 20yr olds and their new game. However, I like to think that it greatly inconvenienced him. I have no delusions it made him a better person or he stopped harboring his hateful views, but I do hope he had a pain in the neck time trying to get himself off all the mailing lists.