An alarm bell sounded, a steam whistle blew, a horn blasted, red lights flashed, silver bells jangled, flash bulbs flashed, a big neon sign popped out and lit up reading "JAMMED!"
The clerk sighed, and removed John's tube from the vacuum pipe system. He looked over into the alcove where one bellhop waited on the bench. He sighed. It was the human, Eric. The "Management" had thought that they should have a few token human staffers to make the human guests feel comfortable, so they hired Eric, but he seemed oblivious to the realities of living and working in a cartoon world. He seemed to see everything as if it was taking place in the human world. Still he was the only bellhop available. The clerk looked around the lobby hoping one of the toon hops would be returning,but not a one was in sight. He sighed, and tapped the bell on the front desk, and shouted, "Front!'
Eric leapt off the bench and bolted toward the front desk. He may have been oblivious to Toon World, but Toon World was fully aware of Eric and used him to his maximum comic potential. He bumped into a fat lady, who dropped her toy poodle which spooked a skateboarding teen-wolf into jumping off his skateboard sending it flying across the lobby just in time for a toon man with his head buried in a newspaper to blindly miss stepping on the moving board, not once but twice as it bounced off the far wall and rolled backwards beneath the walking newspaper reader. It shot behind Eric, and the fat lady who had just picked up her yapping toy dog was knocked off her feet, and rolled toward the spinning entrance doors while now seated on the skateboard.
"Yes, sir?" Eric asked brightly. He seemed oblivious to the mayhem in his wake, even as the fat lady screamed as she disappeared into the spinning doors. The clerk knew eventually the spinning doors would spit her out. The question was would it be into traffic or back into the lobby? He handed Eric the tube containing John.
"Take this to Room 2210. Do you think you can manage that, Eric?"
"Just take this to Room 2210?" Eric sighed. He didn't notice John's blinking eyes in the tube, "Anything else, sir?" he asked hopefully.
"No, not get going."
There was a loud honking noise like a goose, as the elevator doors opened and a crowd of characters and humans fell out like a packed can of sardines. The elevator gauge flashed "TILT" and a big out of order sign appeared.
"Guess, I'll take the stairs,"sighed Eric. Then he smiled brightly and dashed for the staircase. Being human he was soon sweating and panting as he ran up the flights of stairs. On the tenth floor, his Hotel Issued Toon Watch extended a toony steam whistle which blew and voice shouted, "MANDATORY BREAK TIME".
Eric looked around, and slipped into a nearby janitorial closet using his passkey. He pulled out a pack of cigarettes, looked down at the tube, and then over at the janitor's sink.
He said to himself, "I've heard about Fleshlights before, but never used one?" He began to examine the plastic tube containing John. There were round rubber gaskets on each end of the tube, maybe that's where he was supposed to stick his dick?
NO! thought John. He mouth was pressed uncomfortably at the bottom of the tube and he couldn't speak.