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fishwax

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19. at one cheap motel in Salt Lake, my key unlocked other rooms in the hotel
Wed May 15, 2013, 01:54 AM
May 2013

So I had to assume that other people's keys could also unlock my room. I discovered this by accident when coming back from a trip to the car and the ice machine. I was counting doors after the stairs instead of looking at numbers, and I guess I went up the wrong set of stairs. I unlocked the door, stepped inside, and the shower was on--which surprised me, because when we first got into the room my wife had commented on how disgusting the bathroom/shower were, and said she thought she'd feel dirtier after showering than she already did. Anyway, I walked towards the bed and then it dawned on me that something was amiss--and then I realized I was in the wrong room. Yikes. I fled the room and went back to my own, where we slept with one eye open (and on top of the bedspread, because the thought of getting between the sheets in that roach motel was not pleasant).

We shouldn't have bothered with a room that night. Would have been better off sleeping in the car. But we had driven all night the night before and then had our lodging plans for the first night fall through, so we were really needing sleep, and this was during the Olympics, so there weren't a lot of vacancies to choose from.

That was the worst I ever stayed in ... the worst I ever saw was a motor lodge in Bakersfield. It was another desperate situation--we'd been driving all day, and were dead tired at one in the morning, just wanting a place to stay. And this was one of only two places with an apparent vacancy. There was a window in the bathroom that wouldn't close, and a window in the bedroom with a curtain that only covered half the window. The bed wasn't made--the sheet had popped off one edge revealing a rather stained mattress. Stains also on the floor and on the half-a-curtain. The whole room reeked of turpentine. We got our money back and hit the road--wound up driving all night and most of the next day until we were home.

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Some horrible place in Las Vegas... hunter May 2013 #1
Eww. I'd have difficulty getting into the beds at a place like that... Locut0s May 2013 #34
A place called the Maddona Inn olddots May 2013 #2
The Maddona Inn is awesome... hunter May 2013 #3
I had my wedding anniversary there, lol! pinboy3niner May 2013 #5
The Madonna Inn is just off Hwy 101 in San Luis Obispo NV Whino May 2013 #6
Wonder how many Immaculate Conceptions happened there. nolabear May 2013 #15
Our 8th grade class banquet was held there LadyHawkAZ May 2013 #8
I stayed there as a kid in the mid-70s. It was awesome. Arugula Latte May 2013 #36
The Madonna Inn mens room has this waterfall urinal that is just amazing. kwassa May 2013 #40
It was a motel hell in Rochester NY lost-in-nj May 2013 #4
One of the places I stayed in Vegas... LadyHawkAZ May 2013 #7
my friend rented a room in one of the original hotel/casinos KurtNYC May 2013 #20
I stayed in a motel in Cripple Creek NV Whino May 2013 #9
Some little dump in VA Beach, about 30 years ago. femmocrat May 2013 #10
I was driving from Blackfoot to Boise libodem May 2013 #11
Reminds me of that Paul Simon song "Duncan" Arugula Latte May 2013 #37
He musta been there libodem May 2013 #41
Some dump in FL back in the early '70's. Brigid May 2013 #12
The Knight's Inn at Niagara Falls u4ic May 2013 #13
LOL!Last place I saw one of those was Graceland. I am not kidding. nolabear May 2013 #14
The Motel 6 in Roseville Mn mysuzuki2 May 2013 #16
The "It'll Do Motel" in Johnson City, TN. GaYellowDawg May 2013 #17
Lol, hourly rates, now THAT's a red flag. nt Locut0s May 2013 #38
There have been a few Art_from_Ark May 2013 #18
I once woke up with cops IN my room. hunter May 2013 #33
You sound like you've had a colourful life. I'm envious... Locut0s May 2013 #39
I have a high drama family. hunter May 2013 #46
at one cheap motel in Salt Lake, my key unlocked other rooms in the hotel fishwax May 2013 #19
... Scuba May 2013 #21
Well, There's a place in Eastbourne..... CBGLuthier May 2013 #22
that's where I had my honeymoon BainsBane May 2013 #45
Well, the place in the OP looks like... bobclark86 May 2013 #23
Stadium Inn, Kansas City lastlib May 2013 #24
OMG GaYellowDawg May 2013 #42
(thankya! glad I could give you a chuckle!) lastlib May 2013 #43
The Admiral Benbow Inn in Memphis. davsand May 2013 #25
Oh goodness. My wife and I experienced third-world Memphis as newlyweds. hunter May 2013 #26
" honey you're better off camping " olddots May 2013 #29
Mar Oceanview Motel, San Francisco KamaAina May 2013 #27
Back in '85, La Quinta Inn - Brownsville, TX benld74 May 2013 #28
I called room service and said "send up a room " olddots May 2013 #30
It's been 20+ years and I don't remember the name of it csziggy May 2013 #31
A motel near the Fox Theater in St. Louis Hayabusa May 2013 #32
Seen or been in? There are some truly HORRIBLE places here, I mean horrible... Locut0s May 2013 #35
that is luxury compared BainsBane May 2013 #44
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