How about the people who take that warm, gooey chocolate chip cookie and say “this will be good with my coffee in the morning”. As they make that declaration, I’m (moaning with pleasure) licking up the final crumbs of my cookie. Good to know, you can go back for another!
This made me laugh…and cringe. I actually bought a sheet-like sleeping bag for work trips to West Texas oilfield hotels. Even the “high-end” ones felt like a design experiment gone wrong. So many bold fabric choices. So little bleach.
This is why we slow travel now — and why I love Airbnb’s cleanliness rating like it’s a love language.
My husband and I were exploring places in the west trying to figure out where we wanted to live. We spent a few nights in interesting places but one stood out.
Furniture looked like it was from the early 70’s and wouldn’t be surprised if the mattress was original. It was gross and I just wanted to get through the night and get the hell out of there.
The bathroom was also 1970 decor and there was what I hope was red nail polish on the counter and rug. I remember asking my husband if it was blood.
We ended up moving to that town and whenever we pass that hotel we both say “Ahhh, the bloody hotel”. Good times.
I'd always save up and stay at Le Pavillion in New Orleans because they have PB&J and milk at 10:00 every night, logic being I wouldn't have to buy any other food while I was there. And we're talking swanky PB&J. Artisan breads and jellies, even bagels. Plus the whole place has serious library feels. Seriously worth the cash.
If you take the hanger in the closet with the clips and use it to clip the blackout curtain together, you don't get that sliver of light in your eyes in the morning! Loved this post. Thanks for the laughs!
glad the 4some of parents went well and was boring but yet, hotels/motels/shitholes have so many tales to tell.
one of my friends and her husband booked a motel halfway between Michigan and Chicago and there was only one that took dogs, had a room, and was very cheap. as they pulled into the lot, there was a police standoff in process, with guns drawn, and was someone holed up in in a room at this shady place they had booked into. her husband just wanted to just drive around it and check in, and get to their room because there was nowhere else around that would take their dog. she somehow talked him out of it and got him to go somewhere else and snuck the dog in. on their way back from Chicago, they went to original shady motel and the shower curtain was missing from their room, which they surmised had to be where the body had been wrapped up and carried out after the shootout that had taken probably taken place on the night they left and went somewhere else. so -
You always make me laugh. And these days, that's everything! Thank you.
Thank you for the ear worm! 😁
How about the people who take that warm, gooey chocolate chip cookie and say “this will be good with my coffee in the morning”. As they make that declaration, I’m (moaning with pleasure) licking up the final crumbs of my cookie. Good to know, you can go back for another!
OMG! I laughed so hard.
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 thank you so much
Thank you for confirming what (even though I’ve never been on a cruise *shudder*) I knew was true all along.
This made me laugh…and cringe. I actually bought a sheet-like sleeping bag for work trips to West Texas oilfield hotels. Even the “high-end” ones felt like a design experiment gone wrong. So many bold fabric choices. So little bleach.
This is why we slow travel now — and why I love Airbnb’s cleanliness rating like it’s a love language.
Wrote about our switch to long stays here, if you’re curious: Retired, Roaming, and Rooted (https://thebenthalls.substack.com/p/retired-roaming-and-rooted-welcome?r=5ci1ff)
Great post — bookmarking for solidarity.
My husband and I were exploring places in the west trying to figure out where we wanted to live. We spent a few nights in interesting places but one stood out.
Furniture looked like it was from the early 70’s and wouldn’t be surprised if the mattress was original. It was gross and I just wanted to get through the night and get the hell out of there.
The bathroom was also 1970 decor and there was what I hope was red nail polish on the counter and rug. I remember asking my husband if it was blood.
We ended up moving to that town and whenever we pass that hotel we both say “Ahhh, the bloody hotel”. Good times.
I'd always save up and stay at Le Pavillion in New Orleans because they have PB&J and milk at 10:00 every night, logic being I wouldn't have to buy any other food while I was there. And we're talking swanky PB&J. Artisan breads and jellies, even bagels. Plus the whole place has serious library feels. Seriously worth the cash.
You are an amazing writer. Thank you for making me laugh out loud at work 🤣
You are an amazing writer. Thank you for making me laugh out loud at work 🤣
You are an amazing writer. Thank you for making me laugh out loud at work 🤣
If you take the hanger in the closet with the clips and use it to clip the blackout curtain together, you don't get that sliver of light in your eyes in the morning! Loved this post. Thanks for the laughs!
I keep clothespins in my suitcase and use those to keep the drapes closed. It was life changing when I started doing that!
glad the 4some of parents went well and was boring but yet, hotels/motels/shitholes have so many tales to tell.
one of my friends and her husband booked a motel halfway between Michigan and Chicago and there was only one that took dogs, had a room, and was very cheap. as they pulled into the lot, there was a police standoff in process, with guns drawn, and was someone holed up in in a room at this shady place they had booked into. her husband just wanted to just drive around it and check in, and get to their room because there was nowhere else around that would take their dog. she somehow talked him out of it and got him to go somewhere else and snuck the dog in. on their way back from Chicago, they went to original shady motel and the shower curtain was missing from their room, which they surmised had to be where the body had been wrapped up and carried out after the shootout that had taken probably taken place on the night they left and went somewhere else. so -
Brilliant! But Hollywood cockroaches have nothing on New Orleans cockroaches. Don’t ask how I know, but it’s worth a couple of shot of tequila.
I’m stifle-laughing in the dark so I don’t wake up my dog 🤣