Gee, I coulda been a SC. or Critters as roommates, motel style.

[Primer]

This past weekend we went up to northern Texas to put on an artillery school. That's where we teach others how to shoot cannons SAFELY.

Since DH had major back surgery only one month ago, we decided to forgo sleeping in a tent, or even the fort barracks., and instead rented a motel room. We got there Friday afternoon and checked in, then went on to the fort to get set up for Saturday morning. Got back to the motel Friday night; tired, hot and sweaty, and wanting nothing more than a shower and sleep.

Animal Planet on TV? check. Shower clean and in working order? check. Room clean? well, kinda, but nothing serious, just some trash under the beds (hey, I found a quarter!) until......

I pull back the covers on the bed, and there's a freaking millipede in the middle of the bed! I stripped the rest of the bed, and the step-daughter stripped the other bed just to be sure there were no others.

DH was still at an instructors' meeting at the fort. I did go ahead and call the front desk to report the uninvited wildlife. I could have screamed and hollered and insisted on getting a refund, but instead, I told them, "I just want you to be aware of this." They did insist on coming over and changing out the sheets on my bed, and I let them. DH also declined to throw a conniption fit when he got back.

I did tell the rest of our gang there to check their rooms for critters!

[AnaKhouri]

Millipede? >shudder<

I would have shrieked and called the front desk and begged them to send someone up to take it away. I HATE anything with more than 6 legs, from spiders on up.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Reminds me of my family's summer vacation trip about....16 years ago, give or take.

We stopped in Kansas City and spent two days at Worlds of Fun. Our hotel was a Red Roof Inn.

We shared our room with cockroaches. Lots and lots of cockroaches. The in-room Bible probably got more use as a cockroach squasher in our one night there than it ever got as a religious volume.

[Custard Chick]

I would have shrieked and called the front desk and begged them to send someone up to take it away. I HATE anything with more than 6 legs, from spiders on up.

*jumps on a chair a shrieks like the little girl she is*

EWEWEWEWEWEW EWWWWWW!

Seriously, normally I'm not *that* squeamish but I'm with Ana on this one, you have more legs than my cat? You gotta go! I still don't know how I managed to live with roaches for three months. *shudder(

[Snowbird]

I was really freaked out at the time but now I laugh about this:

I went to a rinky dink hotel in the middle of nowhere because I had no other choice. I'm sure everyone can recall those little 'seal of cleanliness' paper rings they used to put around toilet seats. Happily perched on top of the one in this room when I opened the lid was a very curious little... cockroach.

After the initial screams died down, the manager was nice enough to send someone over to clean and disinfect the toilet again, though I did spend most of the night wondering about what was crawling around. Not the best night spent at a hotel for me.

[PepperElf]

heh. i know the feeling.

i was in a company room like that only... i didn't have to pay for it.

wooden bunks, i was in the top bunk reading a harlequin romance book and looked down.....



ever try killing a roach with a harlequin romance book?
ain't easy

[Soria]

::shudders:: I don't generally like anything with more legs then four.

[Jack Doe]

Bah! You're a shell jerker Texas, and the scariest thing you can find is a millipede in your bed? I call shenanigans!

[TheSnakeLady]

Bah, millipedes aren't even venomous. Now if it were a centipede...

[thehippie777]

ew, thanks for not being sucky to the staff at hand.

Had to chase a imaginary bug of some type around a room for an very elderly woman once. She claimed she saw it on our dark comforter, but didn't know if it was a beetle, spider, or what. I literally moved the matresses even, including ripping the bead apart. I even vacuumed the room. I never saw said bug anywhere. I didn't see anything.

[chinashirtgirl]

Yikes!

My mother and her boyfriend were on a road trip and stopped in at a cheap motel somewhere. When they got to the rooms there were roaches everywhere (so she says). It was so bad they spent the night in the truck (but still paid for the room). If I was her I would have at least asked for my money back to go somewhere else since they felt the room was uninhabitable (for people anyway). I don't think it's sucky to want a clean room. It would be hard to sleep wondering what was crawling around.

I once had a room with a big spider on the ceiling in the corner and it made me have trouble sleeping. I did spend the night in the room though at least. It was late and it seemed like a silly thing to ring the night desk and ask them to get rid of one spider but in hindsight it did interfere with my sleep so I should have.

[Primer]

Bah! You're a shell jerker Texas, and the scariest thing you can find is a millipede in your bed? I call shenanigans!

Bah, millipedes aren't even venomous. Now if it were a centipede...

And this is why I did not scream and holler and become a SC. If I had been in the barracks, or out in a tent, even a centipede would not have bothered me (much).

Millipedes may not be venomous, but they do produce noxious and irritating secretions.

[bainsidhe]

My sister went on a high school field trip to DC. At the time, there was a big story about someone at a local hotel finding a dead body under the bed. So what does a group of high school girls do? Check under the bed of course. My sister kept the card that says "Yes, we've checked here too"

[IoRamona]

The worst place I ever stayed in the U.S. was a hotel where my parents and I were staying for a camping show (there are travel trailers, motorhomes, etc. for people to check out, and booths advertising campgrounds), where my parents had a booth for their campground.

The first clue that it was going to be bad was that it was attached to a Hooters, and as we walked into the entrance a woman was yelling at an employee of the Hooters about what a "&%#! he was for firing her daughter." The rooms were passably clean, but there was NO HOT WATER. It was March in the North East.

We were assured that there would be hot water the next day, but there ended up being no hot water for 3 days. It wasn't just our room either, I think it was most, or all, of the rooms. There were many unhappy people. I can't remember if the hotel comped the rooms, but I know some of the Campground owners gave their condolences to the woman working the front desk when they left. She was getting the brunt of it from disgruntled people, and she didn't have any control over the water situation.

The worst place I stayed was in Costa Rica. It was a hostel at the top of a mountain. There were scorpions crawling on the ceiling. At least they were the big black ones, which aren't deadly. Everyone in the group I was with slept with all their clothes on, including shoes.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

The Roach Motel in KC wasn't the worst place I ever stayed in.

That dishonor goes to a place in Paradise, Michigan (little town on Lake Superior in the UP).

It was a warm day and me and my sister wanted to swim, so we went out to the lake, which was right behind the motel, and the temperature of the water was approximately minus 5,836 degrees Fahrenheit.

So then we came back into the motel room to wash off the sand, and the faucets dribbled forth rotten-egg piss.

Seriously, there was that much sulfur in the water. You couldn't wash with it or drink it.

Plus we didn't really sleep that night because the owners lived on the property and their dogs were barking all night.