What architect picks motel door locks?
Stayed in a Marriott Couryard motel in Florida this week. Nice place. Except the doors slam loudly. Someone goes out their room at 5 am and you can hear it 10 rooms away when the door slams shut. Many motels are like that. The doors closes softly on a rubber seal but the latch itself clunks like crazy, and since there is a gap all around the door and a gap under it you hear it a long way off.
Who picks these locks? The Architect or the motel chain?
Is there such a thing as a quiet lock??
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Whoever picks them has 3 or 4 arms too. No f---ing way you can carry anything and operate any of those mystery door lock things. Gotta be fast too on some of them.
Joe H
Man, after the recent thread on lock picking, I completely misread the meaning of this topic. What? An architect stealing out of motel rooms? That sounds like a really strange obsessive compulsive disorder.
LOL, I was thinking the same thing.
I love when you drag all your crap to the third floor and the card doesn't work. Then your standing there loaded down with stuff, trying to decide if you should haul it all the way down, or risk leaving it there. For the record I haul it all the way down. You miss 100% of the shots you never take." Wayne Greztky
Why not call the front desk with your cell and sit on that combination backpack-camp stool that all of you old guys carry? Turtleneck
I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russel stark naked. than with Ulysses S. Grant in full military regalia. - Samuel Clemens
LOL cause I'm never smart enough to have the motel number with me.You miss 100% of the shots you never take." Wayne Greztky
"I'm never smart enough to have the motel number with me."
Ah, but you are smart enough to call information!
Right??
Rich Beckman
Another day, another tool.
it probably the same company that writes the instructions for programing my cd player
Darkworks: We support the US military "We kick your #### and take your gas"
Where are you when I need you?You miss 100% of the shots you never take." Wayne Greztky
I usally 'zap' two of the door cards per day when staying at a motel with the credit card style locks. Doesn't matter if I put them in my wallet, jacket pocket, shirt pocket, etc, I still zap them (my 'electric' personality?) I speak to the manager at some point, you can get them to throw you a free night or weekend in the chain if it happens a few times over a trip.
BTW, the best motel for the money I've ever stayed in wasn't some fancy marriot -- it was a family owned motel up in the mountains of WV, $15 a night, about five years ago. Cleaner than any of the chains, and the towels beat anything I've found in a chain.
PB
PB,
Has a similar situation to yours in regards to the best motel ever. In the country side of Austria, about an two ours outside of Vienna we were visiting my Grandmothers sister who still lives there.
Mom and Pop hotel, large rooms, great beds, NO PHONES in the room, was more like a bedroom then a hotel room, guess it is the equivalent of a Bed and Breakfast here.
I think it was about 20 bucks a night a room, breakfast included.
What I wouldn't give to actually live there.
NeilView ImageGo Jayhawks
I spent three months in a mom and pop kind of deal near Hungry Horse Montana once. I loved it, I was the only guest for the last month and they wanted to go on vacation for a week so they gave me the keys to the office so I could use the phone and get towels. (No phones, or t.v.s in the rooms) I loved that place. There are alot of places like that when you get away from the interstates, the vast majority of them are like you say friendly family run places. I've only been down to the fifteen dollar a night range a few times and that wasn't good.You miss 100% of the shots you never take." Wayne Greztky
Gunner
Must be something about the area, I stayed at a resort motel (using the term lightly) up in the Big Horn Mts. about 17 or 18 years ago, my ex father in law and I went out there to deliver this huge air compressor for a company here in Iowa, we got there and they didn't have any rooms, the guy told us to get something to eat and he would see what he could do, came back and said that he found something, had a trailer house that they used during the bear hunting season, said it wasn't much but was clean.
He felt bad about it and only charges us 1/2 price, was clean, warm and comfortable.
These people were the friendliest people that I have ever been around, not much money in the area but the life couldn't be better. Fell in love with the place, went back a few years later and nothing much changed, If there were jobs there I would live there in a heart beat.
Doug
"Where are you when I need you?"
Your needs??? YOUR needs?? What about MY needs?!?!?
Rich Beckman
Another day, another tool.