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Anonymous
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My wife had made us reservations about a month ago to attend the "Rod Run" in Pigeon Forge Tennessee. Several thousand old vehicles from muscle cars, hot rods, classics and rodent rods are there and this year was no let down. I will have to say that they were several interesting "vehicles" to see as well as some very colorful people but that was about the only pleasures of the trip. The problems started when she made reservations at the Grand Hotel and quickly learned it was a scam and her credit card was stolen and after a call we found that in fact they had no record of us calling. So I quickly put the brakes on that with a call to the credit card company to alert them what was taking place. The card was canceled and we started over using mine. Upon arrival at the hotel things started going wrong from the get go. The first calamity to take place was we learned that her car couldn't be parked at the Hotel and had to be parked in a lot about a mile away, wtf. When she called and made our reservations, she was clearly told that we would have one space for her car, I took the Vert also but didn't expect to park it in the hotel lot. So after calming the wife down we agreed to park her car in the distant lot. In the mean time we had left our daughter and her two friends in the room to freshen up and change clothes (why I don't know). The locked door suddenly opened and a beardy older man stepped in. She said they all screamed and when they screamed he started screaming also. When things settled down they learned the Hotel had double booked our room, he apologized and said he would let them know at the front desk. After the wife and I rode the "shuttle" back to the Hotel with steam rising from the radiator and the interior looking like a bunch of hippies had partied hard after a Grateful Dead concert we learned that most of the outlets in the room didn't work. Three girls, three blow driers, three cell phones and not to mention about a half dozen other hair devices and two working outlets, you know that's not good. Now couple that with a shower that is hot enough to scald a hog and a toilet that takes from three to five times to do a complete flush, things are not looking good (forgot the TV remote is bad). So having a couple extra kids my wife made a call for a fold up bed. The staff was fairly quick to bring it however the room was so small that the only place to put it was between the two other beds. I thought well no problem, just one big wide bed. Soooo after a very exhausting day and finally getting the girls to shut up their yak yak finally time to get some rest. About midnight the wife and I were suddenly awakened by a loud thump followed by a voice saying "help me, help me". It appeared that the bed had folded up and my daughter was stuck in the folded up mattress. She was OK and after fixing the bed again it was back to sleep again, finally. Thinking what else could go wrong and after sleeping about two hours my wife told me that something was biting her toes (and it wasn't me). I told her to put her socks on and we would try to do something about it in the morning. I'm not sure it was any type of bug but when it was light we did take a good look to see if anything was crawling either in our bed or the others and everything looked OK. Now thinking its been one heck of a night we formed a game plan. The girls were gonna sleep in (wonder why) and the wife and I were going to do the show. After sleeping in they were going to relax and swim at the Hotel pool. Little time had passed before they showed up at the car and when ask how the pool was they said it smelled so bad they were afraid to swim in it. I ask if anyone else was swimming in it and they said no that others had smelled the water and elected not to swim. After returning to the Hotel that evening I noticed green algae clinging to the sides of the pool and on the bottom. Yuck! I guess they were smart to stay out of the water. So now we have made it into the second night and I'm thinking there's nothing else that could possibly go wrong. After finally falling asleep on the rock hard mattress and with the 1" thick pillow, I was once again was woke up by a weird noise. About 2AM I heard a loud whopping noise and the first thing I thought was one of the girls had fallen in the bathroom floor. I yelled "are you OK" a couple times but didn't get an answer. By about the second time I noticed four heads looking at each other wondering what was going on. I then realized it was some kind of weird noise the commode made like gurgiggleing (or whatever) that had woke me up. Did I ever feel silly since I was the only one that heard it. What a trip it was and I'm glad to be back home and I guess this will be known and the "curse of cmayna." So plan your vacations well and maybe take a good luck charm with you as well.
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