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I got food poisoning, and was hot/cold all night, when the wind blew the room door opened and snow started to build up on the carpet. Called downstairs and was told to block the door with a piece of furniture.
About three years ago we stayed in a motel In Terre Haute that was the LAST room available in town ( convention in town). It had recently been bought by a nice Indian family. As we were going to bed we realized that the faucet they had just installed was too short! When you turned it on, it overshot the sink and started pouring water onto the floor! We couldn't be too mad at them, they were so sweet and so embarassed.
I was driving through east Kentucky and got tired and the only place available was a "Motel six". The room stank of tobacco smoke and mold. I was next to a breezeway and apparently there were several itinerant workers staying there and they were up til midnight in the breezeway playing cards and smoking dope. It didn't feel too safe.
I was working with land agents to site stores in a business model where we built our lumberyards where we believed construction was going to happen. So out in the country. Anyway I checked into this room right out of Bonnie and Clyde where each room was a tiny bungalow I think they called them. The radio was painted into the wall. No A/C so I left the window wide open and went to sleep.
I wake up flying across the room and hit the wall. Cow's head was sticking through the window to take a good look at me sleeping. Wasn't funny then and it isn't funny now.
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Ah, I remember it well, though it was way back in 1986.
We were on a long roadtrip from our home in the SF Bay Area CA to visit my sister who at the time was in Salt Lake City. We planned an overnight stop in Winnemucca, Nevada and had a motel reservation. This was before Yelp, mind you. So while my wife started to unseat the kids (6 and 2) I went into the room and there above our queen bed on the wall was a big cockroach. I immediately dispatched it and flushed it down the toilet and searched for more, none found. I never did tell my wife about it.
So then after unpacking since it was 106F we went to the pool and my oldest daughter and I went in for a swim. About 10 minutes later a sudden really strong wind came, lasting only about 10 seconds, but it blew dust, tumbleweeds and even the patio furniture into the water where we had to dodge it.
Not motels but a B & B in Hawaii, we were in separate suite to the house ( like an inlaw unit ) & it flooded out. My Uncle was with us & she asked him to bail the water out, & he was Mr Nice guy so he did.
In my hippie era youth, I was backpacking through Europe & we stayed in a "pension" in Rhodes. Door had no lock, & the owner was a creep who come bouncing through the door, in only his underwear, thinking he was Gods gift to women. I did not agree, & I left the island as soon as we could. I took the first ferry out of there.
It must be a thing with motel 6 . yep was tired so I stopped and was there overnight but between the hookers on the corner and the constant cigarette smoke blowing in through the ac vent I did not get much sleep but I got on the road as soon as it was light . Motel 6 never again ever again any trips I take .
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