{"id":546,"date":"2025-08-06T03:55:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T03:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/?p=546"},"modified":"2025-08-06T03:55:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T03:55:00","slug":"check-the-bottom-drawer-what-i-found-left-me-speechless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/?p=546","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Check the Bottom Drawer&#8221; \u2013 What I Found Left Me Speechless"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I worked at a hotel, and this guy had been staying with us for nearly a month. Always polite, quiet, never any trouble. The kind of guest we didn\u2019t mind having around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the day he checked out, he didn\u2019t leave a tip, which I thought was odd considering how long he\u2019d stayed. But just as he was walking out, he turned to me and said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;Check the bottom drawer on the nightstand \u2014 that\u2019s for you.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Confused but curious, I went up to the room after housekeeping cleared it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I walked over to the nightstand, opened the bottom drawer, and&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>There was an envelope.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inside?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A handwritten note and $2,000 in cash.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The note read:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>&#8220;You were always kind. I was going through something, and you never pried. This is more than a tip \u2014 it\u2019s a thank you for treating me like a human when I needed it most.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Not all kindness goes unnoticed \u2014 and not all goodbyes are the end of the story.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I worked at a hotel, and this guy had been staying with us for nearly a month. Always polite, quiet, never any trouble. The kind of guest&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}