# I'm Gonna Start Staying At A Hotel Twice A Month **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 26, 2012, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-start-staying-at-a-hotel-twice-a-month/616847 "2012-03-26T14:49:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2012, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-start-staying-at-a-hotel-twice-a-month/616847/81 "2012-03-30T15:00:45Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#): > > That’s _it_?!? > > This has been fascinating reading, and I hope you guys didn’t run out of clever one-line answers, such as the name of the hotel and **Yakuza’s** hairstyle. > > Come on, guys, please. Someone take up the torch. > > Okay, I’ll _come_ clean, so to speak: I used to do the same thing, though not for the same reason. > > No, really!🙂 > > During my single years, I used to like to go antique shopping, especially in small towns and I liked to stay in a wooded area with a small cabin and fireplace. > > In the evening, I’d check out the honky tonks and sometimes ask to sit in on the easy tunes with E, A, D and G chords.😉 > > _Sometimes_ I got lucky, but believe it or not, I never took my “mini-vacations” for that reason. When you’re solo and not in a relationship, you have _no idea_ > (or maybe you do) how good it feels to take a long weekend in some little out of the way place. > > If I were a car, I’d call it “blowing out the gunk”.🙂 > > So: > > 1. Check in > > 2. Look in phone book for antique shops (usually there’ll be at least three located in “what used to be” downtown) across from the railroad tracks on the same side as the old Rexall drugstore. > > 3. Go into drugstore, buy a couple of postcards. They’ll be a bit yellowed, but by God, they’ll have 'em. > > Ask the cute little teenager (or matron) behind the counter where the best restaurant is to be found. Thank her and go shop your ass off in the antique shops. Be sure to haggle and dicker - no fun if you don’t.🙂 > > 1. By now it’s getting to be late afternoon. Go buy some groceries, some beer (Pabst Blue Ribbon is good) go back to cabin and shower up for the evening meal. > > 2. **Go** to evening meal! Think Slim Pickens in that B52 as you read that. > > 3. While eating, be sure to ask where a guy can go hear some live “Jimmy Buffett”-kinda music. Go to bar and ask the the lead guitar during a break if you could sit in with your flat top on a couple of tunes. Guys have said yes to me 100% of the time. > > 4. That bar won’t be within walking distance, trust me, so be sure to nurse those 3-4 beers (do NOT ask for wine!), because when you leave, the one cop that little burg has on duty will zero in on your car (I recommend a rental - nothing flashy) and pull your ass over if you drive too _slow_ or the least little bit on the yellow in the middle or the white on the right. > > He wants to meet you, you see. He wants to make sure you know who’s “boss”, so be sure to “sir” him whenever possible. > > When he lets you go (100% of the time for me) try not to freak as he follows you all the way back to your cabin or MO-tel. > > Days 2 and 3: rinse and repeat, hopefully avoiding step 7. > > So that’s what I liked to do, and I tried to do it every time I had a long weekend. 2 days is just 2 short.😉 > > Quasi Charming tale but I’m not really sure what it has to do with **Yakuza’s** $400/mo whore budget and and intention to sleep in a storage locker and/or the local Starbucks until 2025. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2012, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-start-staying-at-a-hotel-twice-a-month/616847/82 "2012-03-30T15:14:02Z")
> [@Hello\_Again](#): > > Charming tale but I’m not really sure what it has to do with **Yakuza’s** $400/mo whore budget and and intention to sleep in a storage locker and/or the local Starbucks until 2025. You’re right, of course, **Hello Again**. 🙂 My intent was just to show that one can _have_ those 2 days without making getting laid a priority. If it does happen, however, you’ve enjoyed a nice couple of days with a lady you didn’t have to pay for and probably saved yourself the bother of an STD in the process.😉 Q ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2012, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-start-staying-at-a-hotel-twice-a-month/616847/83 "2012-03-30T15:55:53Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#): > > You’re right, of course, **Hello Again**. 🙂 My intent was just to show that one can _have_ those 2 days without making getting laid a priority. If it does happen, however, you’ve enjoyed a nice couple of days with a lady you didn’t have to pay for and probably saved yourself the bother of an STD in the process.😉 > > Q Well it does sound like fun, don’t get me wrong. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2012, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-start-staying-at-a-hotel-twice-a-month/616847/84 "2012-03-30T22:26:13Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#): > > 😃 never needed it that bad, **Guin**. > > Quasi Well I should hope not! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2012, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-start-staying-at-a-hotel-twice-a-month/616847/85 "2012-03-30T22:58:08Z")
> [@TokyoPlayer](#): > > So, picture him dragging around his laptop, his PS3, and a flat screen and you wonder where he gets the electricity. That has been asked by someone, but not answered. I want to know how he’s getting around. Little Rock isn’t exactly condensed into 7 square miles like San Francisco. Is he sneaking (I don’t see bus fare in his budget equations) all his electronics / everything else he owns on CAT buses, with a hooker in tow? And I still say “Free Girl” like Dobby every time I read it. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-start-staying-at-a-hotel-twice-a-month/616847/86 "2012-03-31T08:10:42Z")
Mr. **Yakuza** are you still with us, and following this thread? (Since your thread about going back to living in the park got squelched)? Since your all-night store invited you to find other accommodations, how does that affect your expenses? Do you have to spend more money now (like, getting around by bus from park to park)? Or is life cheaper (like, not having to buy things at the 24-hour store to extend your welcome)? Do you really think you will live in the park until 2025? Or will you find some other lifestyle plan? How will this affect your employment? Will you be able to keep your job? (Or is that a done deal already?) Will you still be able to spend all that dough on your escorts? ETA: Will you still be able to stay at a motel twice a month? Will you choose to spend more money and stay at motels even more often? You seem to like having a roof, at least once in a while. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-start-staying-at-a-hotel-twice-a-month/616847.md?page=4)