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Wish me luck... Happy Holidays to all
East_TX_Spa:
For rotigers, I was staying at the Stonewall Jackson Inn in Fort Smith, Hillbillyland, around 1992. At about 2:00 am, I noticed some light coming into my room. I rolled over and noticed the door was wide open. I rolled over all the way and there was a young man rifling through my pants pocket on the dresser. I jumped out of bed, threw my arms in the air, and yelled as loud as I could. He took off like a jackrabbit.
I grabbed my gun from the nightstand and took off after him. Got out in the middle of the parking lot when I realized I was in my drawers waving around a 9mm pistol yelling like a madman. I went back to the room, packed, and drove back to Texas. He evidently had a key to my room and had disabled the deadbolt, which I thought nothing of at the time. He made off with $40 but dropped my wallet with the credit cards, thank goodness.
Moral of the story, if you stay in a hotel and the deadbolt won't work, ask for another room.
Terminator
Spatech_tuo:
--- Quote ---He evidently had a key to my room and had disabled the deadbolt, which I thought nothing of at the time.
Terminator
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Moral of the story, always get up and reset the deadbolt after the hooker leaves.
East_TX_Spa:
Yeah, well, that too..... :-[
Terminator
Brookenstein:
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Moral of the story, always get up and reset the deadbolt after the hooker leaves.
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I'll keep that in mind, should the need ever arise.
wmccall:
Hotel Stories?
This one didn't have a hot tub. This was a Howard Johnson's in Hartford, CT. I checked in and immediately smelled smoke in my room. I looked around, didn't see anything to alarm myself. I smelled the curtains and they reaked of smoke that would come from a fireplace, not tobacco. It was 4pm and I was away from home with nothing to do and was starved so I walked to the front desk. I told the man at the front desk, "I smelled smoke in my room, have you had a fire recently?" He assured me they hadn't and he would send maintenance to my room. I left the building, and walked to a steak house accross the street. I really took my time since I was headed a for night alone watching TV. I had a couple of drinks, ordered an appetizer, steak dinner, and dessert, followec by another drink. I let the entire wait staff know I was in no hurry. 90 minutes later I walked in the hotel and asked the desk clerk what they found. His reply was, "The maintenance guy walked down the hall and didn't smell anything" I remember thinking that a punch in the mouth is probably justified and that perhaps this qualified as justifiable homide, but I decided even idiots have a right to live. I calmy told him, " I didn't smell smoke in the hall, it was in my room. " He called the guy back and we met at my door. We opened up the door and the smoked billowed out and it covered the top 6 feet of the room wall to wall.
It turns out they had laid new carpet that day and the carpet layer forgot to cut off the part that curled up under the heater.
You know those little survey cards they leave you? Have you wondered if anyone reads them? I assure you they do. I put, "The inaction of your employees nearly caused a major hotel fire" I got a phone call within a week.
PS - Don't tell anyone this was the 2nd of 3 hotel fires on a night I was checked in. :)
I use to travel a lot.
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