I’ve been up for about 20 hours now. If I start to drool, don’t mind me.
Have you ever been in a hotel room that didn’t have a sewing kit? I must’ve been in 50 hotels in my life, and I’m sure each one of them had a sewing kit. I actually found myself in a hotel room, looking at the fallen cuff of my dress pants and in need of an honest-to-god sewing kit. I was almost delirious with joy – except there was no sewing kit. For a posted rate of $500 a night (thank god for corporate rates!) you’d think they had an on-site tailor who lives in your closet, fercrissakes.
Other than that, the digs are way too nice for a peon such as myself. My electric toothbrush made a very satisfying thunk as I layed it on the granite bathroom counter. Or maybe it was marble. It was cool, and smooth, and yes, I did lay my cheek against it for just a moment. And no, I’m not fessing up as to which cheek. Okay, it was the left one.
I am not made out for business travel. I got completely flustered at the security check in the airport when I had to remove my laptop from my carefully packed messenger bag. Yes, I was that woman with the bag spilling kleenex and lipstick and receipts and pens. And yes, I was also that woman whose very bones seem to make the hand-held metal detector beep in indignation. And, most pathetically, I was that woman, who had to produce a second credit card when the first one didn’t have enough room on it to cover a security deposit at the fancy-ass hotel check-in. Sheesh, who would have expected they’d try to clear a $450 deposit for a two night stay at $110 a night. That’s a hell of a lot of minibar service!
Maybe it’s a good thing I couldn’t find a sewing kit. I didn’t have to dip into the kids’ college account for a saftey pin and some sticky tape.
Dani, Sure hope you are sleeping well right now, as we are sipping our juice and coffee. I would offer you to call my FIL for a sewing kit as he is not far from you, but he is in Europe right now doing his first tour since he was 11. He would have loved it just in case he ran into someone he knew way back when he was working there.
I hear you about being the one at the airport making things beep. I seem to be the one for that in our family. As well as the one trying to find another credit card, hate that feeling for sure.
Hope the rest of your trip is great! Enjoy,
Anna
LMFAO at you being ‘that’ woman at security exposing all possessions from purse on counter. What a hoot!
Enjoy the fancy-ass hotel…enjoy, savour, relish. Thank you for blohhing while on the road, I would be near convulsions without you.
Call the desk, the will ABSOLUTELY have a sewing kit for you. If they don’t, pitch a fit, and they’ll find you one.
I am living vicariously through you right now. Enjoy the wonderful nights sleep, without being kicked in the ribs. Order room service and eat it in bed. Don’t worry about the crumbs: you can always sleep in the OTHER bed! Ooohhh! Can’t wait for my next business trip.
Never mind making the thing beep…I can’t even walk through the detector let alone use that hand wand thingie. I have to be frisked each and every time and it’s never a tall handsome man….in fact I have been frisked by a short little mexican woman..scary it is…
I’m getting ready for another pat down on Friday morning….
Hope the rest of your trip is uneventful
Barb
You know, while I was cleaning up some dog barf that mysteriously appeared in the kitchen overnight, evicting the ants that invaded the house to come and eat said barf, picking up the garbage the racoons spilled that wasn’t good enough for those ants, keeping the toddler yelling “tookie! tookie!” at an undigested bit of cracker in the barf at arm’s length, and cursing the growing out bangs that will not stay out of my eyes and wondering how, in this late heat wave, I’m going to find the will to leave my air-conditioned house today to allow that toddler to burn off some energy; I thought of you and your fallen down trouser hems and your not sleeping, and felt sorry for you.
i’m With Marla! LMAO!
Sharon in the mist of salsa making again…Who’s putting in an order?
Serious enjoy…
Get some rest, metal bones. I make the security beep too. 🙂
Are you actually still blogging. Don’t you have work or sleep top caught up on. For goodness sake go call your husband and children.
Missing you and this is what you get for making your blog our homepage.
so it WAS you… I hope you get back with a little less difficulty, before you suffer from metal fatigue 😉
keep well
Hurrah for Beloved!!!!
I think a lot of hotels are doing away with sewing kits and giving you cue-tips instead. Obviously, they are cheaping out.