# (Old) How would you start the MMP...?

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**Created:** [May 19, 2025, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-how-would-you-start-the-mmp/1018536 "2025-05-19T10:25:41Z")\
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> [@dogbutler](#):
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> [I get the reference](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-d3IpIvSFQ)  
> (probably a better hotel than the local hourly one in the shopping center with the Chuck-E-Cheese and nail parlor that got raided by the po po.)

I hoped someone would get it; shoulda figgered it’d be you. 😉

For all of us here, watching that vid is a really great capsule tour of 1950s/1960s US motel culture. Even if you don’t listen to the song, the visuals are great. But the song is a great American ballad in my book, and always has been.

**Doggio** : Yeah, the hotel’s a bit nicer than those. But we did start out at a tiny table in nearby ritzy restaurant. And there is a pizza joint and a salon or spa or three in the same retail blob as the hotel. But it’s fancy pizza and the po po probably don’t visit those spas _too_ often. So we’re at least halfway following the song. 😉

We had not planned the first such event; the evening was just planned as dinner then return to our respective homes. But we changed our minds as the evening progressed :leer: So now it’s 10pm, I’d made the reservation on my phone’s hotel app 15 minutes ago from the ritzy restaurant’s bar, and we show up at the hotel a bit tipsy with zero luggage and needing to park two cars. And my ID is for a town 30 miles away across the metroblob. The desk clerk was most professional, as if she sees this stuff all the time. Maybe she does.

Next time (i.e. a couple days ago) we were more prepared and each had an overnight bag. But we still parked two cars. Different clerk though. I can hardly wait until Collete gets to know us as regulars and just hands over two parking passes without asking.

😁

> [@Misnomer](#):
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> It’s been _over_ a year, but the renewal is coming up soon? How long is your lease term?

There was a discount to go for 15 months vice 12 so that’s what I did. Current lease began May '24 and ends Aug '25. I’ll probably do 15 again this time so next renewal will be Nov '26.

This building is hot enough that I can practically treat it as a month to month rental. If I leave mid-lease, they’ll have it occupied again in a couple weeks, and my liability is limited to however long it sits. Which won’t be long.

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