I just wanted to be #300.
Sounds like you talked to the same guy as I did, Sue.
I’ll call about the reservations. Goddammit, they better have rooms for us for two nights. I’ve had enough of hotels fucking up my reservations lately. Although there shouldn’t be a problem this far in advance.
Also, you can make reservations on the Internet (see the link I provided above). I don’t know if you could use my Club Ramada card number or not (I’m not worried about getting the points, but I think you can get corporate rates that way). If you do make reservations on the net, be sure to mention my name regardless (it’s in my email addy). That way, we’ll hopefully have our rooms grouped together. This would allow us to have a party epicenter wherein the noise would be damped out before it could reach the rooms of non-Doper hotel guests.
You guys seem to keep forgetting… this is a LITTLE MOTEL. It’s shaped like a squared-off horseshoe. ALL the rooms face into a center parking area. There’s NO escaping any noise you all make. Doesn’t mean it wouldn’t be nice to be next door to one another, but still, you won’t me more than spitting distance apart, anyway.
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Imagine my joy when calling to check my room status.
I’m asking for a room for Stringer, and the guy keeps saying “Strainger” back to me. I could have had an aneurism.
No, Strain. It’s frustrating enough talking to that guy as it is without confusing him further.
Or have I been whooshed?
lol! Yeah, but understandably so. My surname is Stringer
Now I’m having an aneurism!
That’s pretty damn funny.
hee 
well, if anyone other than me ends up in the suite I reserved, there’s an azz-kicking coming down
My goodness, this thread is becoming EPIC. Think about what the party will be like! Zoinks!
Spiny, are you still reading along, or have you fainted yet from all the attention you’re generating here?
Must not…must not make sexual innuendo…GAH!
Except Sue, who is obviously completely invited.
Add Jodi to the list of Maybes. (Hope you make it out, Jodi!)
I verified that the Ramada does, indeed, have us checking out on Sunday. They do.
So, who’s going to go running with me along the beach Saturday and/or Sunday morning? It’s a good hangover cure. Really.
Strainger, is it going to be okay with Mr Fran and I checking in a day before you, you think? Mr Fran is neurotic and worries obessesively about such things. Could you call and see if it’ll be okay? And that they won’t turn around and say “No! You have no room! Only Mr Straing has a room!” and we shall have to sleep on the beach.
Really he’s a cool guy. You’ll love him 
Fran
If you get one of those three wheel strollers with the knobby tires and push me in it I’ll go.
ha! Better yet, get a pedicab and a cooler of Cerveza !
Well, as I suspected, the outpouring of enthusiasm at the prospect of my presence was heartwarming. Feel free to take me off the roll call.
Have a good time, kids.
stoid
Much bitter, stoid?
I dont see where anyone was being mean. Did you want everyone to cheer and holler because you said you were going? No one really said too much when i wrote that I was going.
What’s the deal?