I request the ground floor because it??s just easier. Occasionally you have the suitcase thrower upstairs but most of the time it??s quiet by 10pm. Why someone can??t just set their suitcase down gently escapes my understanding.
Last week some drunk on the 3rd floor manages to burn a bag of microwave popcorn so badly that it filled his room with smoke and set off the fire alarms in the entire building??AT MIDNIGHT ARGGGGGH. Wake up to that gawd awful screeching. Fire Department shows up, break window, blows smoke out with big fans, everybody goes back to bed.
Then there??s the door slamming, why just close your door when you can SHAKE the whole building?
On a visit to Chicago last spring we stayed in a nice little hotel downtown that was great save for one thing:?ÿ our neighbors.?ÿ We never did see them during the two days we were there, but between their very vocal sex and their equally high-volume fighting (complete with thrown lamps and furniture) -- most of which occurred between 4:00 and 6:00 a.m. -- it was tough to get a good night's sleep.?ÿ There was one morning when I half expected to see a dead body in the hallway.
I request the ground floor because it??s just easier. Occasionally you have the suitcase thrower upstairs but most of the time it??s quiet by 10pm. Why someone can??t just set their suitcase down gently escapes my understanding.
Last week some drunk on the 3rd floor manages to burn a bag of microwave popcorn so badly that it filled his room with smoke and set off the fire alarms in the entire building??AT MIDNIGHT ARGGGGGH. Wake up to that gawd awful screeching. Fire Department shows up, break window, blows smoke out with big fans, everybody goes back to bed.
Then there??s the door slamming, why just close your door when you can SHAKE the whole building?
Those damn hotel microwaves. Sorry about that, but after drinking all night I got hungry waiting for the hooker to show up. ???
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A few years back I had a crew out in western OK for a week.?ÿ The oil boom was roaring.?ÿ Rooms were hard to find and you had to take what was available.?ÿ I wound up with two rooms separated by a room that was occupied by the pimp that had his girls working the 24 hour truck stop that shared a parking lot with the hotel.?ÿ Night time was his busy time and someone was always coming and going in the wee hours.
I chatted with him a bit.?ÿ He was a nice enough fella.?ÿ The only solace I could find with the situation was that he was just as interested as anybody with keeping a low profile and not attracting law enforcement.?ÿ The Friday morning we checked out was a happy day indeed.?ÿ
We're doing a boundary survey for the department of interior for the Rio grande is how I first got into surveying in New Mexico about 6 or 7 years ago.
I just finished going through the first phases of my divorce and left my only house that I'd had for a while behind so I wasn't really inclined to save tons of money and live off the per diem for as low as 20 to $25 a day like the other people in the survey who seem to think was worthwhile.
One day on the way to work I was watching the news waiting for everyone to wake up because starting for the federal government apparently in the crack of dawn didn't really cross anyone's mind so that they'd work wee hours into the night and the overtime was plenty.
Turns out the bargain hotel that the people have been staying and thought was such a great deal had a murder that night and as I approached the place there was still a few police cars in the parking lot but nothing really going on no tape nothing exciting.
As I proceeded to knock on the chief's door couple of the other guys that came around were like "hey you're little late today what's up?"?ÿ So I told him "You guys had a murder here last night I figured I'd wait until the police had cleared out."
They said "Well we heard some noise but we didn't know somebody got murdered...."
yeah I'll stay in the more expensive hotels for 50 bucks a night or more this is why I don't need to stay with the group sometimes.
@jitterboogie the hotel is a Holiday Inn Express, decent mid-rate business hotel.
we had to downgrade from Best Western to Super 8 in another town we visit a lot but that owner runs a very tight ship so it??s not too bad.
Completely understand.
I've stayed at private owner hotels and they were all a little tired, but never got bed bugs and even got some amazing free Indian food from the owners.
Where you stay is often a determination of how much time you spend on the road and how much you want to suffer.
I agree.?ÿ Stomping around and dropping things are very deep pet peeves when staying in the wood frame multi story hotels. People just don't care anymore.
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Carry on.
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In the pheasant producing areas of Kansas I have seen multiple signs around motels making it exceptionally clear that there will be NO cleaning of birds in the rooms.?ÿ They have a specific area designated for that function.
Spent most of a week in September 1975 in Milwaukee attending a huge Off-Road Equipment convention held by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE).?ÿ My cohort and I stayed at a nearly new motel on the edge of town.?ÿ Many of the high muckety-mucks were staying at the official main hotel, which I believe was called The Allis Hotel or Allis Plaza or something close to that.?ÿ It was very close to the convention center, MECCA.?ÿ The first morning my first stop was at that hotel to attend a technical committee meeting tied to tractors, backhoes, combines excavators, etc.?ÿ As we were about to leave our motel the local news announced that a guest had fallen from an upper floor at the big hotel, crashed through the canopy at the main entrance and died on the sidewalk.?ÿ Fortunately, all was cleaned up by the time I arrived.?ÿ Nasty looking hole in the canopy, though.
The motel nearly killed me one time.?ÿ I believe it was a Ramada Inn in Ames, Iowa, not far from Iowa State University.?ÿ It was late September 1977.?ÿ Either the building has just opened or it had been 100 percent renovated and then re-opened.?ÿ The smell of fresh paint mixed with the fumes being emitted by the freshly-laid carpenter would make a bald guy grow curly hair.?ÿ It was no better five days later when I checked out.?ÿ It took over a week of fresh air for my lungs to stop hurting.
So my kid brother who lives in L.A., got talked into driving out to Oklahoma recently to accompany his son on a hunting trip. I didn't catch exact location but he was telling me they stayed at a Marriott hotel and while they were away for the day he left his blood pressure medications on the night stand and when they returned in the evening all his medications were gone. He goes to the front desk to report the incident to management, who apparently shrugged their shoulders and told him that because they were having a hard time finding any good workers, they were forced to hire tweekers. So I guess if you're staying in a hotel these days, best take your medications with you.
Oh, boy.?ÿ That could add up very quickly in replacement costs, besides not having what you are supposed to be taking on schedule.?ÿ I have one prescription that has a "standard" price of nearly $1200 per month.
You confused me.?ÿ There are only about two places in all of Oklahoma that might have a Marriott.?ÿ Motel $5.95 and Motel $7.77 are the main choices.
When I first started surveying, we got $5.00 a day. A five man crew. We use to get a room with 2 queen beds and a rollaway for $5.00 a night. You had to budget what you ate to have any money left for beer. 5 cents a glass with an olive in your beer. If it wasn't for those olives I would have starved to death.?ÿ
Wow!
Pre prohibition beer??
I hope I have the energy you have at 100 when I reach 55(if I reach it...) ???? ?????ÿ
Olives in beer.?ÿ I'll give it a try.
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Don't forget to grab a pickled egg or two out of the big jar on the bar.
