Setting: A modest ranch-style home in a quiet urban enclave. The skyline of an unnamed city looms ambivalently at a short distance like a backdrop; it's as if the neighborhood had been strategically placed to permit a view of the bustle while evading any of its tangible parts.This is your home. You used to wake feeling flexible and lean, but years of hard worked days and nights in stale hotels have begun to catch up. You'd sacrificed that time to the gods of material comfort, and you may finally have been rewarded. You sleep in daily and take the short walk (weather permitting) to the local office less than a mile away. You live alone and you'd stopped meeting anyone years ago. The old friends drifted away long ago, and it's increasingly difficult to meet anyone new. A (maybe) well-meaning coworker suggested hosting "Go-Tel" travelers. You sympathize with the many plights of hotel living, and you might be lonely enough to exist around the occasional stranger, so you sign up to host, and this is where our story begins...
You are leaving your office on a Thursday afternoon in October when you receive a notification from Go-Tel. Typically you would ignore it almost robotically (you've taken in all of two travelers during the 15 months you've been a member) but something odd catches your attention at the last moment: this persons name is also Joseph Shaw and he is based in Columbus Ohio.
It looks like he travels often; his profile has been reviewed over thirty times (4.3 stars out of 5). He's looking for a place to stay for one week, and for unspecified reasons. He can't see your name through the app. He can only see the description of the room, so the whole thing is coincidental. You need to make up your mind.
Accept Joseph Shaw's Request
Decline Joseph Shaw's Request