If I check into a hotel, a lot of times, they know who I am.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think people recognize me if I am going out to dinner or if I am staying in a hotel. They are not quite sure at first because I have grown up a lot.
It's very hard to behave naturally when you know people recognise you. On the other hand, I still sometimes get upgraded in hotels because someone used to like me back in the day, which is still pretty amazing.
Occasionally people will look at me and do a double take and they'll look at me like they're trying to think where they know me from.
In the U.S., they just want to know who you're sleeping with.
I like walking into a smaller hotel where the desk clerk recognizes me.
People will have an altered idea of who you are unless they really take time to get to know you, which of course they don't. They just get what they see, and they take that to the bank.
If you're a person who says yes most of the time, you'll find yourself in the hotel business and the restaurant business.
The strange thing about hotel rooms is that they look familiar and seem familiar and have many of the accoutrements that seem domestic and familiar, but they are really weird, alien and anonymous places.
In hotels, every time I make a reservation and they never find my name, they never can pronounce it; it's so long, and sometimes they confuse.
I can walk through a hotel lobby and watch people at the desk and see what they're doing. People don't look at me. They don't even know I'm there.