I have stayed here before. I would guess that I have slept in this place for close to 50 nights. I like this place. I have been coming here since its inception, I know the staff by name, they all know me. I know what is good on the menu, what to avoid and I know what the boss drinks. He knows what I drink when he is paying. A few years ago, they did a reno on all the rooms and I questioned him about the choice of showerheads. He said the interior designer and his wife (co-owner) deliberated on shit like that. Fair enough.
The showerhead sucks. And this is coming from a guy who can recall back in 1996 when an effin' hot water tap blew off it's seating and smacked me square in the back when trying to have a hot shower at the end of a hard day's toil but that was another hotel in another country and has no relevance in this story except to say that after staying in a thousand hotels, I've seen a thousand showerfuckingheads.
Tonight's hotel shot taken from the back of a chair, it kinda gives the expression of what you would see if you were reclining on said chair talking to me. Minus your legs.
Perhaps the conversation would go like this:
You: How was your day?
Me: Dear.
Y: What?
M: How was your day Dear?
Y: Oh sorry.
M: Don't apologise, not needed.
Y: I didn't know.
M: That's okay. What did you say?
Y: How was your day?
M: Dear.
Y: Oh yeah, forgot again... sorry.
M: No need for apologies...
(you see where this is going?)
(more typing required?)
Y: Where are your shoes?
M: Over there.
(points behind camera)
Y: oh ok.
M: I'm gonna grab a shower before dinner, ok?
Y: yeah, no worries.
(I walk off, removing shirt and pants)
(Enters the bathroom)
(sound of a trickle of water coming out of a clearly mysfunctioning showerhead)
What to look forward to? Reminds me of a shower head in Turkey when it would just stop, ...bang on the wall and it would go - for 5 secs! It was a lot of soaping and swearing!
If they only realised how important it is to get into the shower, turn it on full blast and stand there, zoned out, just feeling that water hit...
Awesome photo.. Awesome words.
I always hated hotels after about a month. For several years I traveled often usually for 1-3 months at a time. Those rooms sure do get small after a while. Looks like you need a pint or maybe 2.
You go back to hotels where you know what to avoid on the menu? I stayed in a hotel once, had scampi for dinner, and redecorated the inside of the bathroom for them. In luminous green. I think it might have been UFO Juice, in fact. I would never go back there.
@lbmcshutter - that is good news and one that our Doctor suspected. He was surprised that diagnosis was made so quickly and without a pathologists second opinion.
@bobfoto Two playwrights, probably pillars, of Theater of the Absurd and existentialism. It's been a while since my theater history days, but Beckett wrote Waiting for Godot and Satre wrote No Exit. I think you would like No Exit- I do not agree with the philosophy, but the characters and situation are compelling. I think you'll like it.
@olivetreeann That's exactly what I've been thinking with his latest dialogues.
One of the greatest regrets of my life was being too foolish to realize how cool it would be to meet Samuel Beckett. He was an acquaintance of my boss in Paris, and he once offered to introduce me to him.
I declined with a lame-ass 22-year-old devil-may-care excuse. Idiot.
@squamloon I have come to realize that if I had the opportunity to correct some of the choices I made due to the stupidity of my youth, there would be some major things I would not regret now! For instance, I had an opportunity to spend a semester in London but turned it down because I was in love and engaged and I did not want to be that far away from my future husband. I know now that that semester would have flown by!! But back then it seemed like an eternity. I think it was George Bernard Shaw that said, "Youth is wasted on the young"- I guess in our cases that may have been true! Oh well, live and learn!
Awesome photo.. Awesome words.
@michelleyoung - I did that once, and then the tap hit me....
@snowflakes86 - yeah nah!
@jetpics - Thanks.
@riverlandphotos - *sigh*
@grammyn @agentzuckerguss @summerfield - love your work ladies. Thank you.
@kaesebiscuit - I'm sure they had more than Scampi on the list Mr Biscuit.
@northy - Thanks.
@houdiniem - you'd think so eh?
@michelleyoung - go on! Giggle away!
One of the greatest regrets of my life was being too foolish to realize how cool it would be to meet Samuel Beckett. He was an acquaintance of my boss in Paris, and he once offered to introduce me to him.
I declined with a lame-ass 22-year-old devil-may-care excuse. Idiot.
Jason, here's a classic 1961 version of Godot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDCODtL5PG4&scrlybrkr