So after 9 hours of hard driving, I am looking forward to getting off the road and into a nice hot soaker tub to relax very sore muscles in my shoulders and back. I stop at a traveler's motel along the Interstate, check in, haul all my stuff in ... suitcase, computer, etc, etc. ... I take my bath. I get all ready for bed and reach for the phone to call home and let my family know I'm off the road and safely in for the night.
Eeeeeeeewwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!
Cockroaches swarming everywhere ... all over the nightstand, on the wall, behind the heater, they were all over the place. Now I am only afraid of two things and cockroaches are #1 on the list. I have a panic attack as I stand there frozen, in bare feet. I finally get where I can breathe again enough to call the front desk. The guy was not happy, not about the cockroaches but with having to deal with me. He reluctantly tells me to come back down to the office and he'll "see if he can find me another room to move to." At this point, I'm not interested in moving to another room, I don't want to move anywhere, but I know that I will never be able to sleep in that room. So, I get all dressed again, stop to use the rest room and the toilet overflows. Now, I'm not just in a panic, I'm mad. This is just too much, so I pack up all my things, unplug the computer, haul everything back out to my car and head down to the office. I tell the jerk behind the counter that I want my credit card voided and I'm leaving. He gives me a hard time. I stand my ground. He threatens me. I still stand my ground and let him know that his threats are not going to intimidate me. He threatens me again and then he throws my voided ticket in my face and tells me to "get the hell out of his lobby or he'll call the police." I'm not interested in being in his lobby one more second than necessary. I grab the voided ticket and jump in my car and drive 50 miles before my blood pressure returns to normal. It is now nearly midnight. The benefits of my relaxing bath are undone, I have to find another motel, haul all my stuff back in and go through the whole getting settled for the night thing all over again.
I'm still mad and I will make a formal complaint but in the meantime, a word of advice ... if you are in Tulsa, Oklahoma ... DO NOT STAY at the roach motel:
Super 8 Motel - Site #11082
Tulsa West
5811 S. 4th West
Tulsa, Oklahoma
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