So I was out of town Fri-Sun helping out at another store that just opened about two hours from here for the weekend (being a brand new store and being easily the best store for miles they're doing awesome levels of business) so they put me up in a hotel for the weekend.
I told the regional director, kiddingly, when I agreed to do this that I expect nothing less than a 5-star hotel suite/villa. He chuckled and said I'd get the best he could find.
Well he came through, sorta.
I got what must be the "honeymoon suite" of a Hampton Inn in this town. It's an older, sort of run down, hotel that's on the frontage road that runs along side the US Highway leading into the town. I got what must passes for a trailer-trash smalltown "honeymoon suite."
Now, despite wht I said to my director, I didn't expect to have anything fancy for accomidations so I wasn't necessairly disapointed in my dwelling for the weekend.
My hotel room was your average-sized hotel room with the average as expected appointments and fixtures with one notable, glaring, exception that struck me as odd (and made me suspct this passes as a sad "honeymoon suite" or possibly some prom-night fantasy of ass-tapping. It was a single room, and in the corner of the room where there would normally be the second bed there was a jacuzzi tub.
In the main living area of the hotel room (I.E. not in the bathroom.)
The appaerance of this just struck me as odd and out of place as it didn't really "go" with the room. My laptop, long since deceased due to a power-supply issue that wasn't worth repairing, was never replaced so I didn't have a computer and thus no internet access. I expected there to be a web-TV setup (or something similar) in the hotel room (I've seen this in other rooms where the keyboard and pointer device were in the dresser/TV cabinet) but no. I had no internet, but I had a jacuzzi/whirpool tub.
So Saturday night after a long day at the store (about a 14 hour day) I got dinner then went back to the hotel room, put in a DVD (I brought along a portable DVD player and cords to hook it up to a TV (composite cords) and fired up the jacuzzi.
Damn that thing was loud. I could hardly hear the TV without turning up to what I felt would be unreasonable levels to not disturb my hotel-neighbor and the sound-output on that little DVD player is hardly stellar, nor the speakers on that ancient CRT TV I had.) So I took a fairly quick, relaxing, bath in my sad little jacuzzi sitting in a hotel room in an isolated West-Central Kansas college town.
Fun.
How was your weekend?
I told the regional director, kiddingly, when I agreed to do this that I expect nothing less than a 5-star hotel suite/villa. He chuckled and said I'd get the best he could find.
Well he came through, sorta.
I got what must be the "honeymoon suite" of a Hampton Inn in this town. It's an older, sort of run down, hotel that's on the frontage road that runs along side the US Highway leading into the town. I got what must passes for a trailer-trash smalltown "honeymoon suite."
Now, despite wht I said to my director, I didn't expect to have anything fancy for accomidations so I wasn't necessairly disapointed in my dwelling for the weekend.
My hotel room was your average-sized hotel room with the average as expected appointments and fixtures with one notable, glaring, exception that struck me as odd (and made me suspct this passes as a sad "honeymoon suite" or possibly some prom-night fantasy of ass-tapping. It was a single room, and in the corner of the room where there would normally be the second bed there was a jacuzzi tub.
In the main living area of the hotel room (I.E. not in the bathroom.)
The appaerance of this just struck me as odd and out of place as it didn't really "go" with the room. My laptop, long since deceased due to a power-supply issue that wasn't worth repairing, was never replaced so I didn't have a computer and thus no internet access. I expected there to be a web-TV setup (or something similar) in the hotel room (I've seen this in other rooms where the keyboard and pointer device were in the dresser/TV cabinet) but no. I had no internet, but I had a jacuzzi/whirpool tub.
So Saturday night after a long day at the store (about a 14 hour day) I got dinner then went back to the hotel room, put in a DVD (I brought along a portable DVD player and cords to hook it up to a TV (composite cords) and fired up the jacuzzi.
Damn that thing was loud. I could hardly hear the TV without turning up to what I felt would be unreasonable levels to not disturb my hotel-neighbor and the sound-output on that little DVD player is hardly stellar, nor the speakers on that ancient CRT TV I had.) So I took a fairly quick, relaxing, bath in my sad little jacuzzi sitting in a hotel room in an isolated West-Central Kansas college town.
Fun.
How was your weekend?
Did you not enjoy it at all??
But then again I was so tired when I finally got back to the hotel Friday and Saturday nights that I was hardly able to stay up through watching a movie on DVD so I may not have gotten much out of internet use anyway.)
