Adventures at cheap hotels
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common_natureWe had to take a quick trip down to the coast last weekend, so the other half did the Priceline thing and bid on a hotel sight unseen. We got in after midnight after a stressy and annoying drive through at least a dozen of those towns that exist only to get you lost by putting an unannounced exit for the highway you thought you were already on way off to the left (UK etc: substitute right), so that you end up wandering through the speed traps of the dead downtown in the middle of the night. Those towns. Yeah.
Anyway. By the grace of the Maps app we found our way to the hotel and even though I was already more than half-asleep I swear I caught sight of
- OMFG, OTHER HALF, THERE IS A BADGER THING IN PAJAMAS OUTSIDE OUR HOTEL!!
- No, dear, I'm fairly sure it's actually a bear.
- YOU KNEW ABOUT THE BADGER THING IN PAJAMAS AND DIDN'T TELL ME??!!
- I... was afraid you might be alarmed?
- THE BADGER THING IN PAJAMAS IS THE MOST FABULOUS THING ON EARTH! IT REDEEMS THE WHOLE SMOKE-SMELLING HOTEL!!!!
Yes, there were actual verbal exclamation points. And, in my defense, it was nothing o'clock in the morning and I was asleep, so I thought it was a badger. Thing. In pajamas. And I knew that whatever it was, I obviously needed evidence of it to present to the internets the moment it got light out.
And come the next morning, I actually remembered the conversation enough to run out to take pictures of the badger thing (yes, dear other half, it was a bear. But I was totally right about the pajamas.) before we left. But on the way out to find the best angle on the great unnatural, I got distracted by a skrawk and a rush of wings and a funny fat reddish bird doing the classic fake-a-broken-wing dance to distract me from this:
in a shallow hollow in the garden mulch just a few feet from the feet of the hideous badger-thing in pajamas.
Anyway. By the grace of the Maps app we found our way to the hotel and even though I was already more than half-asleep I swear I caught sight of
- OMFG, OTHER HALF, THERE IS A BADGER THING IN PAJAMAS OUTSIDE OUR HOTEL!!
- No, dear, I'm fairly sure it's actually a bear.
- YOU KNEW ABOUT THE BADGER THING IN PAJAMAS AND DIDN'T TELL ME??!!
- I... was afraid you might be alarmed?
- THE BADGER THING IN PAJAMAS IS THE MOST FABULOUS THING ON EARTH! IT REDEEMS THE WHOLE SMOKE-SMELLING HOTEL!!!!
Yes, there were actual verbal exclamation points. And, in my defense, it was nothing o'clock in the morning and I was asleep, so I thought it was a badger. Thing. In pajamas. And I knew that whatever it was, I obviously needed evidence of it to present to the internets the moment it got light out.
And come the next morning, I actually remembered the conversation enough to run out to take pictures of the badger thing (yes, dear other half, it was a bear. But I was totally right about the pajamas.) before we left. But on the way out to find the best angle on the great unnatural, I got distracted by a skrawk and a rush of wings and a funny fat reddish bird doing the classic fake-a-broken-wing dance to distract me from this:
in a shallow hollow in the garden mulch just a few feet from the feet of the hideous badger-thing in pajamas.
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Date: 2010-03-23 03:33 am (UTC)And hilarious post -- thank you for the laugh! :D
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Date: 2010-03-23 08:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-23 01:25 pm (UTC)But very cool that it led you to the killdeer nest!
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Date: 2010-03-24 02:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-01 12:06 pm (UTC)