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I am not likely to be staying in a Days Inn anytime soon.

Last year I left AC at about 3:00am and was planning to just pull off at a motel and get a room just outside of town. Every goddamn place was full so I just kept going and going through hellish construction zones. Finally I get to the Deleware Memorial bridge and I just can't drive anymore. My buddy and I pull off at the Days Inn intending to get a room and crash for a few hours and then make the rest of the drive home.

It is early in the AM and just light outside. There was a youngish Indian clerk behind the front desk who seems a bit non-plussed to have guests, but he gets us a room key. The place is a complete dump. It looks like they started construction a couple of years ago and just gave up.

So we go up the stairs to the second floor and I can barely keep my eyes open. I slip the key card and toss my bag inside the front door. I look up and instead of our two double beds there is one king bed. On that bed are two chicks. One is a light brown skinned girl, probably hispanic, and she is topless with the sheet halfway down her belly. The other has a bra on and is on her stomach. They are both sound asleep. I took a look and slowly and quietly backed out of the room and closed the door, they didn't wake up.

I went back down to the front desk and told the guy, "Hey man, there were people asleep in our room". His response has kept me wondering all year, "Umm . . uhh . . . sorry, they must be locals". WTF? I was actually too tired to be upset much and now I was pretty much awake so I just had him charge the card back and I hit the road.

My later theory ran to one of two things. Either the desk clerk was taking cash for rooms and not putting them in the computer, or these were his friends that he let crash in the room.