The Coffee Cup 04

Everyday, a half-empty cup of coffee was on that table when I opened and the chair was pulled back. I knew the restaurant manager inspected the dining room before locking up at night, so I believed the dinner crew when they denied leaving it. The only employee on duty at night was one of two graveyard shift desk clerks, yet they both denied doing it and it really made no sense for them to leave the front desk unattended and risk being fired just to go through the hassle of unlocking the dining room to sit in there and drink coffee at a back table when there was coffee and a television at the front desk. The hotel had no security guard, so that was not an available explanation either.

　　Around the end of August, I again got to the dining room after the kitchen crew had turned on the kitchen lights. As I entered the dining room, I again saw the silhouette of someone sitting at that table. I was not going to let the person escape again before finding out who it was, so without turning away to turn on the lights, I walked straight across the dining room toward where this person was seated.

神秘的咖啡杯 04

每天我开门后,都会看到一个半空的咖啡杯放在桌上,椅子被拉了出来.我知道饭店的经理每天晚上锁门前都会检查餐厅,所以我相信餐厅职员的话,那杯子不会是他们放的.晚上就只有两个值夜班的接待人员之一在前台,可是他们也说自己没去过餐厅,而且他们也没有道理会把前台放着不管,然后冒着会被开除的危险,不怕麻烦地打开餐厅门,坐在一张靠进厨房的桌子旁喝咖啡,况且前台有咖啡喝,有电视看.酒店没有保安,所以我也找什么别的什么解释了.

　　八月底的一天,我到餐厅的时候,厨房的员工已经开了厨房的灯.我进餐厅时,我又一次看到了有人坐在那张桌子旁的侧影.我要找到这个人到底是谁,再也不能让他跑掉了,所以我没有转过去开灯,而是直接穿过餐厅查那个人坐的地方走过去.