Disclaimer: In case you read me wrong, none of this is a complaint, it is a story, or two...and so it goes...
Our elderly couple (from yesterday's comment with no computer and asked me to mail directions) had us on the phone for 20 minutes at 9pm last night as they drove around and around to find us, literally past our big white fence - the only fence in town, the big sign our front, the two signs out back. The parking area street is 2 blocks long, that is it.
This morning he declared "I can't eat this stuff, it's bad for you!" When I brought out the most beautiful breakfast. She is in talking the other guests ears off. Which is okay because one doesn't talk. The other guests are repeats and early 50's and he has had a stroke and can barely walk and talk and there is more I won't share here, but it is a very special getaway for them.
Elderly couple are very concerned they won't find the garden tour today. "Surely someone in this town has the garden book!" she proclaims. Someone? Who knows, and it is not here by the way, it is a state garden tour, and not in our town. They love everything however, and said "how pretty all the little touches are and THIS is why we don't stay at a Hampton inn!"
She jokingly said that road out here was made in hell! (I am laughing as it is not a country road, it is not a mountain road, it is a highway).
*** part 2
For the I.T. people - DH had to return (recycle) 6 large batteries he ordered for the UPS (industrial sized) and put them in the back of his 1/2 ton Dodge pickup today and off he went to a nearby city for return to a battery place. He just called and told me he was driving down the highway and saw in his rearview mirror flames shooting out the back... he was finally able to stop in a median area and jumped out. A duct touched one of the batteries in it's cardboard box and it arc'd out and lit up the back of the pickup WITH A CANOPY covering it , it was engulfed in flames.
a state trooper came over pretty quick (someone must have seen it and called) and helped him put it out. Then he got in and had no keys - I guess he tossed them when he jumped out. they eventually found them and he was on his way...
Back to the table - they want directions to one place or another and the old guy - 90+ keeps saying "we need to pay, where do we pay!?"
Happy FRIDAY everyone
Our elderly couple (from yesterday's comment with no computer and asked me to mail directions) had us on the phone for 20 minutes at 9pm last night as they drove around and around to find us, literally past our big white fence - the only fence in town, the big sign our front, the two signs out back. The parking area street is 2 blocks long, that is it.
This morning he declared "I can't eat this stuff, it's bad for you!" When I brought out the most beautiful breakfast. She is in talking the other guests ears off. Which is okay because one doesn't talk. The other guests are repeats and early 50's and he has had a stroke and can barely walk and talk and there is more I won't share here, but it is a very special getaway for them.
Elderly couple are very concerned they won't find the garden tour today. "Surely someone in this town has the garden book!" she proclaims. Someone? Who knows, and it is not here by the way, it is a state garden tour, and not in our town. They love everything however, and said "how pretty all the little touches are and THIS is why we don't stay at a Hampton inn!"
She jokingly said that road out here was made in hell! (I am laughing as it is not a country road, it is not a mountain road, it is a highway).
*** part 2
For the I.T. people - DH had to return (recycle) 6 large batteries he ordered for the UPS (industrial sized) and put them in the back of his 1/2 ton Dodge pickup today and off he went to a nearby city for return to a battery place. He just called and told me he was driving down the highway and saw in his rearview mirror flames shooting out the back... he was finally able to stop in a median area and jumped out. A duct touched one of the batteries in it's cardboard box and it arc'd out and lit up the back of the pickup WITH A CANOPY covering it , it was engulfed in flames.
a state trooper came over pretty quick (someone must have seen it and called) and helped him put it out. Then he got in and had no keys - I guess he tossed them when he jumped out. they eventually found them and he was on his way...
Back to the table - they want directions to one place or another and the old guy - 90+ keeps saying "we need to pay, where do we pay!?"
Happy FRIDAY everyone