The hotel clerk ran through the usual facilities before coming to an awkward halt.

The hotel clerk asks if we know our licence plate number, and we recite it.

Or the reputation of an innocent hotel clerk?

Then he worked as a hotel telegraph operator, as a hotel clerk, and eventually as a hotel manager.

Between 1982 and 1999, he worked as a school teacher, truck driver, painter, limo driver, hotel clerk, furniture mover, football coach, carpenter, and bouncer.