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OMG, I was getting pretty pissed off after the tenth time I had to repeat myself to this naturalized(I’m just guessing by his accent, cause it’s that or he is an illegal immigrant) citizen. I told him over and over “I AM CALLING TO CONFIRM MY RESERVATION!!!” “I AM CALLING TO CONFIRM MY RESERVATION!!!” “I AM CALLING TO CONFIRM MY RESERVATION!!!” “I AM CALLING TO CONFIRM MY RESERVATION!!!” This is just one example of the crap I was up against when I was trying to book a hotel for my trip.

I called my first hotel in hopes that the check-in age would be 18, they asked if there would be any minors, which I said yes, because being the honest guy I am, I don’t lie! :) After I said that, they quickly answered a evil “21″!!! So I talked to my dad about it and he said not to worry about, “How are they going to know how old you are?”, which I thought was a good point, so the plan is to have my accomplice(not named for various reasons, but not really) check-in while I wait in the VAN.(thats our plan anyhow) So then when I called the other hotels that didn’t have their check-in age online, I didn’t mention the whole minor thing, and they all said “21″, “21″, “21″, “21″… It was looking pretty bad until this word “MOTEL” popped into my head, a word I have never even thought about before that moment. So anyhow, I did the same thing, I searched travel websites and the ’superpages’ for motels that listed their check-in age, and if it was 21, then I didn’t bother looking into them any further. So in any amount, I was still suprised that all the motels I found, even the $30 & $45 ones, were all age 21. Then I found the winner(hopefully, I called to ‘confirm’ it, but no true answer yet), some half decent sounding, no pictures posted, motel located in newport news. Wow, I thought, what a winner, it’s check-in age is 18, and it accepts debit cards, how cool! Even though it is 40+ miles from the virginia beach, I think it will suffice…. I mean, they say that they offer “showers”, which is all I need, I mean hell, if worse comes to worse, I can just live in the van for a week right?(just joking).Anyhow, lemme get back on track….

I booked the hotel, sorry, my bad, the MOTEL through onlinehotels.com and everything was going good until I hit continue, it had me TYPE the room I wanted, yes, I said type. This was no travelocity.com website, it was a pretty ghetto was to make a reservation if you ask me, but it was the only website on the net that offered a way to book with this place online. So anyhow… once I hit the final submit button, it looked like nothing happened, but then I noticed a banner on top of the page which read “The information below will be used only to secure your reservation, and is transmitted over a secure connection…” which I thought was odd, but hey I would say ghetto is this websites primary work ethic! In any amount to cut to the chase, I called the place hoping I could simply SIMPLY confirm my motel reservation over the phone, of course, and this guy (?) answers the phone(the naturalized one I mentioned above) and says hello hello hello hello and I am like can you hear me? CAN YOU HEAR ME? then he says hello…. and I said I WAS CALLING TO CONFIRM A RESERATION I MADE, and he said “how many rooms?” and I repeated several more times “I WAS CALLING TO CONFIRM A RESERATION I MADE” and I kept getting the same or similar incorrect response. Then he said “oh, ok, can I take your name?” I said “**** ******”, spelled it out for him too. But then he said “how many rooms do you want?” and I said “NO, I AM CALLING TO CONFIRM, TO CONFIRM MY RESERVATION” (slightly, slightly frustrated) and then he said, “can I have your phone number?” and I gladly gave him my “accomplice’s” phone number(the other guy going on the trip) so it would be his problem now - haha! The last thing the motel guy said was “Ok, I will have my manager call you back”, which I think is going to be pretty funny because I didn’t even tell my friend that I gave the guy his number~

~~ Sucks to be him - haha

)( Oliver