Back to where we started from~~Arainging my daughters marriage and other fun stuff

[winkers]

The Three Penny Inn in Westchester NY. We would put 4 swimmers ina room so the room rate was split 4 ways. When we were told $3 a person, one red flag went up ( This was the late '70's), It was a motel, not dirty or we would have left but run down. It was winter and when we woke up the next morning we had ice on the INSIDE of the door. NICE.


Ahhh childhood swimming memories.

YIKES!!! Makes me glad I'm not a swimmer!

Sounds like a Baymont in Memphis I had the unfortunate experience of nearly staying at. I did like you did---handed over the key and got the heck out of there!!

I guess everyone needs a good hell hole story to tell. It makes you appreciate the nicer places

 

[Poolrat]

YIKES!!! Makes me glad I'm not a swimmer!



I guess everyone needs a good hell hole story to tell. It makes you appreciate the nicer places

We rarely stayed at "nice" places. We just looked for safe and clean.

A bunch of kids with "some" adult supervision was not always welcome at most places.
Think cheerleaders, popwarner and brazilians.

 

[winkers]

Think cheerleaders, popwarner and brazilians.

that is what my nightmares are made of!!!

 

[englishrose47]

I was gonna post a CAT pix but it says Bandwidth exceeeded ?????What does that mean??????

 

[Blueyed Girl]

As we pulled up to our hotel I realized something was wrong. Just from looking at the motel you could smell a nasty odor. But, being the optimist I can sometimes be, I went into the office to check in.

the smell that hit me when I opened the door nearly knocked me on my rear. It smelled like stale smoke, chinese food and stinky feet all rolled up into a moldy tortilla. I was a waitress at a chinesse restraunt in high school so I know what 2 of those smell like from previous experience.

EEEW, EEWW, AND MORE EEEEWWW!!!!!


I called hotwire to see if I could get a refund and they said no so I headed back to the lobby to tell the man what a disgusting establishment he had and question how many homicides and taken place there.

By the time I got there the mom on my shoulder knocked politness back into me and all I did was walk in....hand him the keys and leave.

I'm not good with confrontations.

By this time it was well past dinner and the natives were getting restless. We were kinda in the middle of no where with no hotel reservations ....would I turn back and take a chance at showering with Norman?

Too bad I wasn't with you. I'm pretty good at confrontation if I feel that I'm being ripped off!! Plus, with all that nasty stuff I would have had no problem telling them something. It wouldn't have made any difference but at least you may have felt better.

 

[Blueyed Girl]

I was gonna post a CAT pix but it says Bandwidth exceeeded ?????What does that mean??????

It means the picture was too big for what they allow you to post here

 

[PittypatBR]

When a dear friend's mother died, another friend and I drove to another state for the funeral and to support our friend. She had booked a room for us, and we should have remembered she was EXTREMELY FRUGAL (read obnoxiously tight!). When we got to the motel, we were a little surprised because the neighborhood looked rather seedy and the motel itself was a little run down, but we thought surely our friend wouldn't have booked us in a rat hole. So we went in, checked in and got our keys, and headed to the room. We were hit by a stale, mildewy aroma when we walked in, the beds were wavy and covered with a spread that looked as though it was covered with the sins of many, and we encountered two dead roaches on the way to the bathroom. We just turned around and went back out that door, turned in the key and threatened to sue them if they dared to bill us, and drove around to a nicer neighborhood and found a room in a Holiday Inn. We didn't want to hurt our friends feelings so we didn't tell her right away, but when she asked about the motel we 'fessed up. She said, "Oh, I'm sorry, but the price was SO GOOD! I was just trying to save you some money!" I bet she would have stayed there just to save the money! LOL

(I think they were more used to people who paid by the hour!)

 

[winkers]

I was gonna post a CAT pix but it says Bandwidth exceeeded ?????What does that mean??????

I've seen it before, but I'm not sure what it means

Too bad I wasn't with you. I'm pretty good at confrontation if I feel that I'm being ripped off!! Plus, with all that nasty stuff I would have had no problem telling them something. It wouldn't have made any difference but at least you may have felt better.

next time I'll bring you with as my little pit bull!
My problem is I keep things in untill I'm so pissed off that I explode ....just as MIL....it's only happened a few times but when it has she's heard about years of my frustration in about 2 minutes...

It means the picture was too big for what they allow you to post here

Rosie.....what she said!

When a dear friend's mother died, another friend and I drove to another state for the funeral and to support our friend. She had booked a room for us, and we should have remembered she was EXTREMELY FRUGAL (read obnoxiously tight!). When we got to the motel, we were a little surprised because the neighborhood looked rather seedy and the motel itself was a little run down, but we thought surely our friend wouldn't have booked us in a rat hole. So we went in, checked in and got our keys, and headed to the room. We were hit by a stale, mildewy aroma when we walked in, the beds were wavy and covered with a spread that looked as though it was covered with the sins of many, and we encountered two dead roaches on the way to the bathroom. We just turned around and went back out that door, turned in the key and threatened to sue them if they dared to bill us, and drove around to a nicer neighborhood and found a room in a Holiday Inn. We didn't want to hurt our friends feelings so we didn't tell her right away, but when she asked about the motel we 'fessed up. She said, "Oh, I'm sorry, but the price was SO GOOD! I was just trying to save you some money!" I bet she would have stayed there just to save the money! LOL

(I think they were more used to people who paid by the hour!)

Reminds me of the Cane Motel near Seattle...DJ and I were with none other than MIL, who had called and booked the room.......it was horrible but the last straw was when I pulled off the comforter/CSI project the sheets had hairs all over....and these were of the variety that were on Clarence Thomas' pop can.

 

[jordanyosh]

I have a similar story about my last cross country trip from CA back to KY....except we stayed at the hotel....it was a Days Inn in Springfield, MO...there were ants crawling around in the beds. I actually went to sleep amongst the ants. I was THAT tired. I didn't care.

 

[winkers]

I have a similar story about my last cross country trip from CA back to KY....except we stayed at the hotel....it was a Days Inn in Springfield, MO...there were ants crawling around in the beds. I actually went to sleep amongst the ants. I was THAT tired. I didn't care.

ants...in the bed????

I guess you haven't lived till you've stayed in a scary hotel.

 

[winkers]

Last sunday started out as a normal sunday and everything was great untill I woke up wedged underneath and between the pews, with no idea how I got there. I think maybe the sunday school teacher was so good that the spirit moved me...right out of my seat.

Of course everyone around was freaking out and much to my horror they called 911 because D.Jay wasn't there. He had stayed home because of his shoulder pain.

As I got up and hobbled to the loby with the aid of a friend all I could think about was wether my skirt had stayed down, or if I'd just managed to moon half the congregation.

The emt's came and checked me out and urged me to go to the e.r. but I'm stubborn and since this is a problem I've dealt with since I was 14 there was no way in hel.....since I was at church maybe..heaven would be a better word......Anyway...no way in heaven or hell that I was going for my own sprecial ride in the red truck.

Once D.Jay got to the church he informed me I was going in wether I wanted to or not...So we went, I was put in a "c collar" aka "cone of shame" , poked, proded, x-rayed and generaly picked over, all so they could shrug and say what every other doctor has...they had no idea what happened.

Yesterday, D.Jay had shoulder surgery to shave off some bone spurs and repair a tendon....fun.

So, that's what I've been up to this week.....just a normal week in the winkers household.

 

[reelmom]

Is it rude to laugh at your last post? Because I did. I am so sorry that it happened. It must be pretty scary to pass out and not know what is wrong.

 

[englishrose47]

Is it rude to laugh at your last post? Because I did. I am so sorry that it happened. It must be pretty scary to pass out and not know what is wrong.

Have to agree, but Cherie does have a habit of falling and sometimes even recording it on camera Not that I haven't torpedoes down the stand at Fantasmic !!!

 

[winkers]

Is it rude to laugh at your last post? Because I did. I am so sorry that it happened. It must be pretty scary to pass out and not know what is wrong.

Have to agree, but Cherie does have a habit of falling and sometimes even recording it on camera Not that I haven't torpedoes down the stand at Fantasmic !!!

It's perfectly fine if you laughed at me...I laugh at myself! If I didn't I'd cry.

 

[smidgy]

wow! hope you are ok.. you pulled a nebo!!!

 

[winkers]

wow! hope you are ok.. you pulled a nebo!!!

I'm good....mostly just my pride was hurt.

 

[smidgy]

I'm good....mostly just my pride was hurt.

yeah, your eye could be hanging out of its socket, but you're like "anyone see that?"

 

[winkers]

yeah, your eye could be hanging out of its socket, but you're like "anyone see that?"

yep!!! If their are not wittnessess then it didn't happen!

 

[winkers]

With the option of the Bate's Hotel or lookling elsewhere...we picked elsewhere. It was around 6 by this time and the natives were getting restless. We grabbed dinner from a BK drive thru and then parked in a near by Starbuck's parking lot to use their free wi-fi.


I'm sure that when Einstein defined insanity as repeating the same thing but expecting different results, he had me in mind. So, it should come as no surprise that I was on my laptop looking up the nearest hotels on hotwire.


There weren't a lot of options so we decided to drive to Redding that night. I booked what looked to be a promising room and headed off on what, according to the GPS said, would be about a 3 hour drive.

We enjoyed driving down the coast line to Eureka and then headed west into what turned into being 3 hours of winding and tiny roads through mountains, in the dark. It was an interesting drive.

Around midnight we pulled into our Hotel which was fabulous!! It was like being in the Grand Floridian after a week of camping.

I guess insanity works some times!

In the morning we enjoyed a free breakfast in the Hotel's restraunt....it even included little cheesecakes......I LOVE cheesecake.

Some where between Redding and Sacramento D.Jay and I decided to make a detour to Solvang before hitting Aneheim. It looked so easy , we just switched highways and off we went.

I don't remember how long we had been on our new route when I spied the Jelly Belly factory! D.Jay LOVES his jelly bellys! I remembered hearing about free tours so , once again our plans changed.

We had a fun tour through the factory and enjoyed the gift shop...of course! We still have 3, 2lb bags of "irregulars" that we bought. I think we'll still have them in 10 years.

We were relieved to not find any over sized appendages on the Jelly Belly...thing.

Free hats....wooohooty!


We were at the factory for longer than we had expected...it was packed in there. Which led to...yet again....another change of plans.

As much as I've always wanted to visit Solvang, which is a town decked out like a Danish village, but by the time we got there things would be closing up.

We back tracked a little to I-5 with Aneheim once again as our destination.
The further south we got the roads got worser...ok, I know that isn't a word...they were even worse than before....it's been awhile since I've had a class on gramar or spelling.

I don't know how anyone deals with the traffic on a daily basis, it's enough to make me need a drink....and I don't drink.

When, hours later, we pulled into our hotel I was so relieved to just be there. Hotwire had been good to us and we had a great hotel at an even greater price.

The kids headed to the pool, d.jay went to pick up dinner and I unpacked and said a silent prayer of thanks that MIL had decided not to go with us.


Ok, Nebo....next chapter I'll get to Disneyland...just for you!

 

[ddstratton]

Um... That Norman Bates motel... SCARY!! The closest we've come to a place like that was the Rodeway Inn in Jacksonville, FL. This place didn't even have a clock in the room! But it was clean, at least. Glad the next place was nicer.

Jelly Bellys!! How cool! We love 'em, and would love to take the tour someday.