Mike Enslin: The rooms gotta be filthy. I mean, the sheets havent been changed in... what, eleven years?Gerald Olin: No no no. Were very professional here. 1408 gets a light turn once a month. I supervise, the maids work in pairs. We treat the room as if its a chamber filled with poison gas. We only stay 10 minutes and I insist the door remain open. But still... A few years ago a young maid from El Salvador found herself locked in the bathroom. She was only there for a few moments, but when we pulled her out she was...Mike Enslin: [sarcastically] She was dead?Gerald Olin: No. Blind. She had taken a pair of scissors and gouged her eyes out. She was laughing hysterically.

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