Multi-Hundred Dollar Records

Unstable people were a staple of the front desk at the YWCA.  The name of the game was ditch your front desk partner when the shifty ones came in or hand them off to a manager.  It was best if you could ditch a manager at the front desk.

 

One day an older woman came in with this weird wrap over her head.  It looked like she took one of those hair dryer domes and covered it with cloth.  She asked about swim lessons.

 

I turned to Will who wasn't paying attention.  Hehehe.

 

"Will right here will help you," I said as Will turned around.

 

It was a Friday and some parents were in the lobby watching their kids take swim lessons so I chatted with them.

 

I paid almost no attention to Will until nearly 20 minutes had passed.  Then I realized he was writing some things on a piece of paper for the woman, but had to keep crossing things out.

 

When she left, Will said the woman kept asking him to write down the names of her children whom she wanted to get swim lessons.  Aside from children all being over age 20, all of them had Jesus in their name.  I only remember one name, Byron Jesus, and part of another, something Madame Jesus Christ.

 

That lady would come in several more times so we started calling her Madame Jesus Christ.