Daily cost of travel in the US
Aug 22nd 2005, 10:49 pm
#31
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Re: Daily cost of travel in the US
Hatunen wrote:
> Icono Clast wrote:
>> I've been a patron of Motel 6 since it was $6 a night. It
>> provides everything I need: clean sheets, hot water, a shower,
>> and towels. It also provides things I don't need: a television
>> set and a telephone. It does not provide two things I prefer to
>> not live without but do when I must: a radio and a clock or a
>> clock/radio.
>
> In the early days Motel 6 had TVs in the rooms but you had to rent
> a key that could turn it on from the front desk.
That I don't remember. I do remember, however, that at the first
(maybe second or third) Monterey Jazz Festival, Motel 6 lost most, if
not all, of its television sets. I saw some of them on their way out.
We're all aware that that can't happen today.
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> Icono Clast wrote:
>> I've been a patron of Motel 6 since it was $6 a night. It
>> provides everything I need: clean sheets, hot water, a shower,
>> and towels. It also provides things I don't need: a television
>> set and a telephone. It does not provide two things I prefer to
>> not live without but do when I must: a radio and a clock or a
>> clock/radio.
>
> In the early days Motel 6 had TVs in the rooms but you had to rent
> a key that could turn it on from the front desk.
That I don't remember. I do remember, however, that at the first
(maybe second or third) Monterey Jazz Festival, Motel 6 lost most, if
not all, of its television sets. I saw some of them on their way out.
We're all aware that that can't happen today.
__________________________________________________ _________________
Drum machines have no soul.
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ICQ: < http://wwp.mirabilis.com/19098103 > ---> IClast at SFbay Net
Aug 23rd 2005, 5:23 am
#32
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Re: Daily cost of travel in the US
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 03:49:54 -0700, Icono Clast <[email protected]>
wrote:
>Hatunen wrote:
>> Icono Clast wrote:
>>> I've been a patron of Motel 6 since it was $6 a night. It
>>> provides everything I need: clean sheets, hot water, a shower,
>>> and towels. It also provides things I don't need: a television
>>> set and a telephone. It does not provide two things I prefer to
>>> not live without but do when I must: a radio and a clock or a
>>> clock/radio.
>>
>> In the early days Motel 6 had TVs in the rooms but you had to rent
>> a key that could turn it on from the front desk.
>That I don't remember. I do remember, however, that at the first
>(maybe second or third) Monterey Jazz Festival, Motel 6 lost most, if
>not all, of its television sets. I saw some of them on their way out.
>We're all aware that that can't happen today.
Of course not; TV sets are too cheap to bother stealing.
************* DAVE HATUNEN ([email protected]) *************
* Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow *
* My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps *
wrote:
>Hatunen wrote:
>> Icono Clast wrote:
>>> I've been a patron of Motel 6 since it was $6 a night. It
>>> provides everything I need: clean sheets, hot water, a shower,
>>> and towels. It also provides things I don't need: a television
>>> set and a telephone. It does not provide two things I prefer to
>>> not live without but do when I must: a radio and a clock or a
>>> clock/radio.
>>
>> In the early days Motel 6 had TVs in the rooms but you had to rent
>> a key that could turn it on from the front desk.
>That I don't remember. I do remember, however, that at the first
>(maybe second or third) Monterey Jazz Festival, Motel 6 lost most, if
>not all, of its television sets. I saw some of them on their way out.
>We're all aware that that can't happen today.
Of course not; TV sets are too cheap to bother stealing.
************* DAVE HATUNEN ([email protected]) *************
* Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow *
* My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps *
