InnBloom
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We've all got stories about innkeeping that we'll be telling when we're in our rockers in the nursing home. Here's a new one of ours:
Young gal checks in last evening. She's beginning a business trip that doesn't even require her to be in our town but she's going to meet an old friend at a favorite watering hole for the evening. We chat awhile, and off she goes.
DH goes out this morning to go to his day job, and when he unlocks his vehicle she pops up in the car next to him. She asks if he'll let her back in the house because she got locked out late last night, and she slept in her car (!) rather than waking us. She explains that after she got back from the bar, she changed into her PJ's and watched a bit of TV, then went to get something out of her car and forgot to take her key. He expresses concern, she laughs it off, he lets her back in, and tells me what's happened.
End of story, right? Not quite. She comes down to breakfast at 10 a.m. as pre-arranged, and quicky tells me and some other guests the story. But there's a twist. Seems she was actually going out to get a bottle of water out of her car (okay yes, we supply bottled water, so it was completely unnecessary). Then as soon as she's locked out, she realizes that her friend had driven her back from the bar! Her car isn't here!! It's about 1/2 mile away. She's wearing slippers, PJ's and a sweater, and she has her car keys. So instead of waking us -- "I didn't want to wake you up and tell you I did something that dumb" -- she WALKS back to the bar and gets her car. At 12:30 at night. Alone. And it's in the 40's.
Unbelievable. But STILL not the end of the story. After awhile she tells us the rest. Her GPS still has our address in it so she uses it to find her way back here. As she tells it, the GPS turned her the wrong way down a one way street (yeah, okay, maybe). So yes.....she gets pulled over. Officer asks her if she knows she's going the wrong way down a one way. She explains with her deep Southern drawl (which she pours on extra thick) that she's not from around here and her GPS told her to turn that way. He asks her if she's been drinking. "Oh no, officer!" He actually LEADS her here in his squad car, and THEN she sleeps in the car.
Oh my goodness.
Young gal checks in last evening. She's beginning a business trip that doesn't even require her to be in our town but she's going to meet an old friend at a favorite watering hole for the evening. We chat awhile, and off she goes.
DH goes out this morning to go to his day job, and when he unlocks his vehicle she pops up in the car next to him. She asks if he'll let her back in the house because she got locked out late last night, and she slept in her car (!) rather than waking us. She explains that after she got back from the bar, she changed into her PJ's and watched a bit of TV, then went to get something out of her car and forgot to take her key. He expresses concern, she laughs it off, he lets her back in, and tells me what's happened.
End of story, right? Not quite. She comes down to breakfast at 10 a.m. as pre-arranged, and quicky tells me and some other guests the story. But there's a twist. Seems she was actually going out to get a bottle of water out of her car (okay yes, we supply bottled water, so it was completely unnecessary). Then as soon as she's locked out, she realizes that her friend had driven her back from the bar! Her car isn't here!! It's about 1/2 mile away. She's wearing slippers, PJ's and a sweater, and she has her car keys. So instead of waking us -- "I didn't want to wake you up and tell you I did something that dumb" -- she WALKS back to the bar and gets her car. At 12:30 at night. Alone. And it's in the 40's.
Unbelievable. But STILL not the end of the story. After awhile she tells us the rest. Her GPS still has our address in it so she uses it to find her way back here. As she tells it, the GPS turned her the wrong way down a one way street (yeah, okay, maybe). So yes.....she gets pulled over. Officer asks her if she knows she's going the wrong way down a one way. She explains with her deep Southern drawl (which she pours on extra thick) that she's not from around here and her GPS told her to turn that way. He asks her if she's been drinking. "Oh no, officer!" He actually LEADS her here in his squad car, and THEN she sleeps in the car.
Oh my goodness.