Another sold out night

[bhskittykatt]

Also just because the parking lot is full does not mean we are not sold out. "You can't be sold out!!! There aren't any cars in your parking lot!!!!!' I hear people say. Well, that means either not all of the reservations have showed or there may be a big group staying who will be arriving on a bus.

Once a year, we have Super Duper Bicycle Ride stay overnight in our town (we had TWO days worth this year!). So, my parking lot will only have maybe 10 cars since everyone takes their bikes into the rooms, but we will have been booked since February (the event is in August). We start filling up November the year before, as soon as they announce the dates for the ride. There won't be a room for over a 50 mile radius around town, and people insist I must have rooms since there's no one in the parking lot!

[Ironclad Alibi]

While reading all these complaints about Washington traffic, I had to keep reminding myself it was Washington state. Because traffic in the Washington, DC, area can be terrible.

[bhskittykatt]

While reading all these complaints about Washington traffic, I had to keep reminding myself it was Washington state. Because traffic in the Washington, DC, area can be terrible.

Oh God, do NOT get me started on the SCs who phone in thinking we're Washington DC, and get pissed at me when I correct them like it's my fault they're bad at geography!

[skeptic53]

Once a year, we have Super Duper Bicycle Ride stay overnight in our town (we had TWO days worth this year!).

I've ridden medical support for this ride 6 of the past 7 years. It's a great ride. First day is Seattle to Bellingham, second day across the border to Gravekeeper's city, Vancouver BC. Plenty of SC's among the riders when it comes to wanting their bags early (truck's not unloaded yet), indulging in the fave activity of SC's (not reading anything) and having problems as a result ("What do you mean my bike is on the truck to Seattle!!"). I hope they don't cause you too much trouble.

[Eisa]

The traffic thing reminds me of when I got to experience Maryland/D.C. traffic. I live in Idaho. If you can imagine...we don't have bad traffic. At least not where I live.

From Baltimore to D.C. took...what was it, 5 hours on the bus? 4 hours? I dunno, it was some ridiculously long amount of time and it was because of traffic. Damn.

[dragon_wings]

The traffic thing reminds me of when I got to experience Maryland/D.C. traffic. I live in Idaho. If you can imagine...we don't have bad traffic. At least not where I live.

From Baltimore to D.C. took...what was it, 5 hours on the bus? 4 hours? I dunno, it was some ridiculously long amount of time and it was because of traffic. Damn.

Sounds about right. Were you using our public transit on a Friday afternoon/evening by chance?

[bhskittykatt]

I've ridden medical support for this ride 6 of the past 7 years. It's a great ride. First day is Seattle to Bellingham, second day across the border to Gravekeeper's city, Vancouver BC. Plenty of SC's among the riders when it comes to wanting their bags early (truck's not unloaded yet), indulging in the fave activity of SC's (not reading anything) and having problems as a result ("What do you mean my bike is on the truck to Seattle!!"). I hope they don't cause you too much trouble.

Actually, most of the ones we get are quite pleasant. There's some suck when there room isn't cleaned when they arrive, but it's nothing too bad, and most are understanding about it. Generally, they're all very pleasant at the motel end.

(We have housekeeping start at 9am, however this year, we had a grand total of six early check-outs for them to clean. Almost everyone waited for the noon checkout...some even later! Augh! And when some of the riders start showing up at 1pm, that's not a lot of time to get the rooms turned over.)

[Jay 2K Winger]

The DC metropolitan area has some of the worst traffic in the country, and I don't care what statistics you want to throw at me to prove otherwise. The worst. In the country.

Gods help you if your commute takes you anywhere near the Beltway. One minor traffic snafu anywhere near it, it borks up traffic EVERYWHERE.

I live in Idaho. If you can imagine...we don't have bad traffic.

Fixed for my amusement.

[depechemodefan]

Guest: "And your drivers are just...they're insane! I am never doing this [event] again! Your traffic is a nightmare!"

I bet she's the one side-swiping people and gets pissed people honk at her

[Ironclad Alibi]

The DC metropolitan area has some of the worst traffic in the country, and I don't care what statistics you want to throw at me to prove otherwise. The worst. In the country.

Gods help you if your commute takes you anywhere near the Beltway. One minor traffic snafu anywhere near it, it borks up traffic EVERYWHERE.

The worst thing to do during rush hour is to have to cross the Potomac River. The beltway is horrible, as is the reverse commute* on I-66.

*I-66 reverse commute = going away from DC in the morning, and toward DC in the evening.

[Eisa]

Sounds about right. Were you using our public transit on a Friday afternoon/evening by chance?

Oh my...I was on a Greyhound bus, but how did you guess? It was Friday. I had to pee like a bitch because we were only supposed to have a 5-minute stop in Baltimore so I didn't get off the bus--turned into like an hour stop, so I ended up having to hold it until we got to Union Station.

[blas]

Sometimes I can get radio stations from Minneapolis/St. Paul in my car pretty decent. The other day I was driving to work and fiddling with the stations, and it was traffic report time.

I am so glad I don't live in the Twin Cities. They listed no less than 10 accidents on 94 and 494. Wow. And it seems like this is a daily freaking thing!

Granted, there's plenty of accidents around here, but never anything like that.

[bunnyboy]

Wait... 5 hours from Portland to Seattle... 5 hours to do the Sea-PDX sprawl?

I've driven through both of these places...

Guy's lucky it didn't take the usual 7 hours due to Accidents south of olympia, Construction on I-5 in Tacoma, and depending on if he was a moron or not construction on I-405... everywhere.

[smileyeagle1021]

Also just because the parking lot is full does not mean we are not sold out. "You can't be sold out!!! There aren't any cars in your parking lot!!!!!' I hear people say. Well, that means either not all of the reservations have showed or there may be a big group staying who will be arriving on a bus.

or they all took shuttles or cabs
I get that at the hotel "how can you be sold out, there's barely any cars in the parking lot"
... umm, because the airport is closed and we had a crapload of people come from there... hey, didn't you come from there... yeah, and they all either took the shuttle or took a cab.

[BroSCFischer]

Also just because the parking lot is full does not mean we are not sold out. "You can't be sold out!!! There aren't any cars in your parking lot!!!!!' I hear people say.

I get this all the time, mainly because we have a front parking lot, and parking all around the building near the actual rooms.

So if the front lot is vacant, people can't understand how we can be sold out.

bhskittykat you have my sympathies.

SC