Monthly Archives: September 2013

The Most Disgusting Hotel Room I Have Ever Slept In.

Awhile back, I was dead asleep sitting at my desk at work.  I made a post about “Ode to Hotel Beds” that I don’t even really remember typing, because I was dead asleep.  This hotel bed made the cut as the absolute worst.  But since I had limited the post just to beds, it was not allowed a chance to shine in full glory.  So now here it is, getting full credit for being the most gross hotel I have ever slept in.

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“Oh you are from new York? Were you there on September 11?”

I have been asked this quite a few times in my life. Exactly two months after the towers fell, I was in Las Vegas.  When you are a gambler, you sign up for player’s cards at casinos and earn comps.  There are a lot of casinos in Las Vegas.  I showed my ID to people a lot of times.  Every time, I got asked about it.   After that trip, it died down a bit.  Then I started going to Europe and it began all over again.  Every European who has ever asked me about it, has done so with the most sincere look of interest on their face, as if I am about to expound a fascinating firsthand account of that day.   I hate to disappoint them by telling them that while yes, I was indeed here on that date, you saw more than I did.   Including the collapse of the North Tower, which had a television antenna on top of it.  While you were watching the tower collapse on your television screen, you were watching the antenna that gave me television reception collapse as well. 911_collapse Continue reading