August 12, 2025 • 28 mins
We share a nightmare hotel experience that occurred at the start of our family vacation to the Great Smoky Mountains, featuring an abandoned front desk, malfunctioning room equipment, and a tennis ball under the bed.
• The hotel nightmare begins with a 45-minute wait at an unmanned reception desk
• Phones ring unanswered throughout the hotel while guests stand helplessly in the lobby
• Room amenities include an aircraft-loud air conditioner and a high-pitched refrigerator causing ear ringing
• Morning reveals a homeless person sleeping in the breakfast area while the front desk phone continues ringing
• Despite multiple attempts to contact management for a refund, calls remain unreturned
• A second story features a Diamond Elite status showdown when a motel refuses to provide a refund despite broken amenities
• The vacation eventually continues with a beautiful mountain cabin experience featuring stunning sunrise and sunset views
If you've ever stayed in a shitty hotel, make sure you leave it in the comments and maybe we'll share your story on air eventually.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Top Shelf Stories with J, chris and Tony.
So what's up everybody?
(00:49):
Thanks for joining us.
Another episode of top shelfstories with chris, jay and tony
.
Today I'm gonna tell you alittle story about family
vacation.
So every year we plan a familyvacation around spring break
time and we like to drive in thecar.
So I'm going to wait for Tonyto come back, because there's no
(01:14):
sense in telling a story to twopeople in a room when only
one's in the room.
You're taking notes.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
No, I'm right, Tony's taking notes my ass.
So we're taking notes.
No, I'm taking notes my ass.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
So we're taking this family vacation.
We decided we're going to godown to the Great Smoky
Mountains.
We're going to do like six days.
We rented a cabin right on topof the mountain.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
That's amazing.
I did that last year.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Yeah, I think we got a little inspiration from that
maybe, yeah, actually our wivestalked, it's very possible and
you guys were supposed to comewith us.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Whoa what happened.
We should have.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Because it would have been more fun with another
family for sure.
So we were going to take thistrip down.
We were going to leave on aFriday morning, thursday morning
or Friday morning, somethinglike this, but the weather here
in Milwaukee was showing thatthere was going to be some snow.
And we're going to drive andwe're like fuck that shit, let's
(02:10):
get out of town.
So I went to my app, I gothotel points through Holiday Inn
, picked out a nice hotel nearO'Hare Airport.
Get on the road, get an hour ortwo out of town.
Call it a night, leave afterwork, get a good start in the
morning.
So we showed up at this hotelat about 7.45 or so and my kid
(02:39):
goes to bed at 8 o'clock Plus.
We were all excited for thistrip.
So we're like shit, we're here,we'll get in trip.
So we're like shit, we're here,we'll get in, we'll.
We'll get in, we'll check in,we'll throw all our bags down,
we'll jump in the pool for alittle while, then we'll crash,
we'll get up in the morning,we'll get going.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Put all our bags on this cart thing, because we were
packed to like not gone for aweek, yeah, and you're in
chicago, so you can't leave afucking napkin on your car
without it getting stolen.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
That and also is I wasn't really planning for this
day.
So my bags are not packed for aday, they're packed for the
next leg of the trip.
So I show up, pull this cart ofluggage into the lobby and wait
.
There's nobody at the frontdesk.
(03:28):
Like well, this is strange.
We'll wait it out a couple moreminutes.
I'm sure the person will beback in a second.
They still don't show up.
Minutes go by, Ten minutes goby.
I mean the kid is like gettinganxious.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
The wife and her went and looked at the pool but it's
a young girl, so she's justsitting there quietly she was
just sitting there quietly ofcourse, so probably brought a
coloring book or something dudesat there for like 20, 25
minutes.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Dude, now it's like 8 , 30, 8, 20 sitting there and
there's another guy who hadgotten locked out.
He had just checked in and Iwas like, dude, where's the guy?
Like, is there a guy or a girlhere, like who's supposed to be
here?
He's like, oh, when I checkedin it was a Big black guy.
I'm like, okay, he's like I'mwaiting for him Because I went,
(04:19):
I checked in.
He's a guy like he's still inhis orange vest from work and
shit.
He checked in and went acrossthe street to get some food and
came back.
He fucking forgot his keys inhis, in his orange vest.
Is it like a safety vest, likea construction guy?
oh, yeah, yeah, neon he's likeso he's waiting and we're
waiting.
It gets to the point I'm likeall right, I'm gonna call, like
(04:43):
the credit card hotel, ihg hotelthing, like dude, there's
another hotel like a mile and ahalf down the road.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
I'm gonna call them, tell them to move us like
there's nobody here so shesometimes it's not good to be
prepared to it, so this guy waswalking.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
He's like fuck this.
And he starts walking into likethe office area, yelling for
people.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
There's nobody there so now you're stuck there
because you already got it,we're stuck.
See now me I'd be like no one'shere 8, 30.
I didn't fucking plan this.
I'll go to a fucking anotherhotel, dude.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
But you can't, can't, we're waiting.
So I call the thing on my phoneand the lady's like, you know,
press one for this, press twofor that, whatever I get the
lady and she's like, hi, I'mgonna help you.
And I give her the number, thereservation number.
She's like, oh yeah, no, it'swell, would you mind just
holding on a moment?
We got a phone number.
We're gonna call.
We'll get a hold of them, butdon't hang up, did?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
you will get a hold of them, your phone, the phone
next to me starts ringing.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
It had already rang through its cycle.
People were calling this hotelwhile we were waiting.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
I mean we're there for half of an hour.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
You can't do anything .
You can't go to your roombecause you don't know which
room is yours.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
You can't go to the pool because there's a lock
there.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Did you look over the counter?
You can't.
Office of the he was done, dudehe was like playing around with
the computer trying to printhis own key.
Dude, this guy.
This guy was pissed because hehad been working all day.
He'd fucking waiting.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
He went to go get lunch.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
He still didn't eat nothing.
He's hanging out in this bag offood.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
He's waiting in this lobby with these white people.
I got my key printed.
What?
What room are you in?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
he couldn't get into his room neither, and and then
like people are coming down andthey're like what are you?
And I'm like, do you work here?
Do you work here?
Like no, no, no, phone'sringing.
I'm standing there on the phone, it's just it's like beeping in
my ear and bring it over there.
Beeping in my ear, ringing overthere.
I'm like this bitch line likewhat's the deal?
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So I get so frustrated.
I'm like, because it's beenlike five, ten minutes now I've
been waiting on hold so I'm nothold and there's nobody there
and like I'm fucking.
What am I supposed to do?
My kids looking at me likewhat's up, dad?
So so much stress?
That's well the time.
It's already 8 30 now we'resitting here in a freaking hotel
lobby.
We're all excited for ourvacation.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
That they still have any of the continentalinental.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Breakfast stuff out.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Nothing.
No coffee Nothing, nothing.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Dude, I don't even think that CNN was on in the
breakfast room on quiet orwhatever, like it always is.
So finally I'm like fuck this.
So I went and I'm like I'mgoing to pick up that goddamn
phone.
So I picked up the phone,thinking I'd get the lady to
tell her like hi, I'm the guythat's waiting.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
But no.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
I get myself.
It talks into my other ear.
So I got both these phones.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
I talk into myself.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
All she did was transfer us to the front desk.
She was gone, gone.
So then I'm hung up on.
So then I'm like crap.
So I call back again and I'mwaiting.
You know, press two, press this.
What's your reservation number?
How can I help you?
What seems to be the problem,all this stuff?
I'm like can you just there's?
My wife looked it up, I know ofit too.
It's just like three miles downthe road.
(07:57):
Can you just move ourreservation so we can get the
hell out of here?
I've been waiting this lobbyfor 45 minutes.
One moment, sir.
We've got a phone number we cancall.
I'm like no, dude, Lady, youcan't call again.
It just rings Like it's notgoing to work.
Finally, the dude walks in.
Dude walks in, right, I'm likethank God.
So I let the guy who'd beenfucking food, getting cold and
(08:18):
all this shit, I let him get hiskey because I thought that
would just take a second.
No, this freaking key machinewouldn't work.
The guy's swiping the keymachine, he's sitting there
sipping a big foam cup soda andhe's like y'all are lucky.
I came back or came into workearly today.
I don't know what's going on.
I knew it was the samemotherfucker, cause this guy's
(08:39):
eyes behind me the guy he was.
He was livid, right, so anyways, it takes like six, seven.
So anyways, takes like six,seven times, checks in, gets the
guy going.
Then he checks us in, gets usgoing, gets us into our room.
We get to our rooms.
You're like don't worry,there's a little construction,
we're gonna put you on floorfour.
And he laughs.
I'm like dude, don't do me likethat, don't.
(08:59):
I was like dude, I seen whatyou just did.
You laughed, just put me, comeon.
So he's like I know, I'm justkidding.
Four side construction floor.
So you get the elevators, likethe, the plastic is on there
because there's construction inthe hotel and get in the room.
Get in the room, everythinglooks nice in the room like all
right, say bad, whatever, that'sthrough.
We go, we put our, we get kidslike all right, suits on, let's
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go to the fucking pool, eventhough now it's nine o'clock,
not eight o'clock, you know, godown to the pool, just stinks in
there like fucking chlorine,like burn your eyes chlorine.
No towels in the fucking bin forthe for this pool.
Kid goes, dad, I'm scared, Idon't want to swim in this pool.
I'm like all right, whateversounds good for me.
(09:44):
I really didn't want to either,especially now it's fucking
nine o'clock.
I want to get on the road atlike six the next morning like
road and road.
We haven't even, like you know,get a snack in you and hang out
at the hotel for a minute,right, or whatever.
The fucking heater and airconditioner box was like.
It was so bad.
I recorded it on my phone.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
It sounded like an airplane dude.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
It was terrible, my God.
The wife goes down to the frontdesk for something and go out
to smoke a cigarette orsomething.
Me and the kid are sitting inthe room and she's like Dad, my
ears are ringing.
And I'm like my ears areringing too.
What the fuck is this?
The air conditioner I alreadyunplugged because it's too
fucking loud.
The air conditioner I alreadyunplugged because it's too
(10:30):
fucking loud.
What else could it be?
Speaker 3 (10:30):
the dude, the, the refrigerator was ringing so loud
, so she's like my ears areringing.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
I unplug it and she's like dad, it stopped there, was
that, what, dude?
Then she's dicking around thehotel room.
She finds a tennis ballunderneath the bed nice, which
is like whatever.
It's a tennis ball underneaththe bed, nice, which is like
whatever, it's a tennis ball.
But like what the hell?
This place hasn't even beencleaned since.
The last was like what, anyways?
(10:57):
And then, oh yeah, the elevator.
So we went down to the.
When we went down to the pool,we took the other elevator, that
the one, like that, was the onethat came up from us.
There was two elevators.
She, she's like I want to takethe stairs.
I'm not going on the elevatoranymore because it like was all
janky as shit.
Uh yeah, dude.
(11:18):
Oh we went down to go havebreakfast in the morning.
I'm like, okay, freecontinental breakfast.
We'll go down there, get somefood in the kids belly, we'll
get on the road there's ahomeless person sleeping in the
fucking area by the coffeemachines.
Uh, the older woman comes downfor filling coffee and she's
(11:39):
like, hey, good morning, and shelooked like she had about as
good a night as I did god.
And she's like, oh cool, no tea.
Huh, no tea.
So we make our little breakfastfrom the little hot breakfast
area, whatever we're sittingdown, me and the kid and I'm
sitting, and it's like you know,40 feet down a hallway to the
(12:00):
front desk, and the whole timewe're eating the phone is
ringing and nobody's picking itup.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Nobody, dude, we're eating.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
the phone is ringing and nobody's picking it up.
Nobody, dude.
Well, okay, what is the name ofthis hotel?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
it's that's the thing , so that's the thing I've been.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
I was an outside salesman.
I used to spend like three outof four nights or three out of
five nights of the week on theroad or more, and the one thing
I always told my company was,like I understand, these hotels
are a little more expensiveevery night, but I know that
when I check in it's going to bethe same.
They're going to greet me witha nice greeting, give me a
bottle of water, all this shit.
It's going to be the sameblankets, the same pillows, same
room configuration.
(12:36):
It'll have a pool, hotbreakfast.
I stay at Holiday Inns.
If that's a problem with you,that's a problem with you.
So it a holiday inn.
Oh, dude, this is the firsttime in my life, dude.
Normally they'll like email,you like a day or two day later
and they're like hi, how wasyour stay?
And like one of the firstquestions is like did they greet
you as a customer lead orwhatever to ruby elite or
(12:56):
whatever?
The fuck I am how?
many times did the phone ringdude, so bad dude.
So then I go through the wholevacation.
We had a great vacation.
I won't get into here, I justneeded to tell this quick story.
But we get this huge long, thisfive-day vacation.
We did all this great stuff.
(13:16):
We come back, a couple dayspass and I decide I'm going to
fucking call Because this hotelwas my free night, that I had
earned Plus, even if I paid forit, I'd want my money back.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
So I'm like I want this free night credit back.
Like that was ridiculous.
Dude, you got one of the freenight credits.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
I damn near just drove off at 8.30.
I was like well, I guess we'reheading to Louisville, we're
going to get there a littleearly.
We would have shown up at like3 in the morning.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Louisville, louis, louisville, louisville.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
No, you can't move your tongue.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Louisville, yeah All right Now one of you guys.
It's where we stayed to breakup the trip.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Yeah it's the spot to go yeah, you guys.
You stay at the Drury Inn Spellthat we did not stay at the
Drury, you got to stay at the.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Drury Spell that, you guys.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
One of you 15 here, so got it almost dude.
I call like three, four daysafter we got back and I'm like
hi, I just want to tell somebodyabout my experience at the
hotel.
I didn't have a very good timeand like I just want to express
it, and I'd also like to ask fora refund of my stay.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
I thought it was like all right please hold.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
We're going to get you in touch with the manager at
the hotel.
It rings and rings, and rings,and rings and rings and then
finally someone does pick up andI was like hi, I just wanted to
know.
They said that you were themanager.
And she goes oh, you want totalk to James, or whatever?
Hold on Voicemail.
Still haven't gotten a callback to it.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
I ain't never getting that free.
No, you ain't never getting afree room.
So so my brother is also atraveling salesperson and, uh,
he stays with one group ofhotels now it's hilton for me.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
I switched.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
I switched.
I don't really remember what Ithink it might be the Hilton
group or something I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
American is part of it.
I don't know which ones thoseare American and then there's, I
think, Super 8.
Oh, that's the Choice Hotel.
I think maybe that's a goodprogram.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
And then it goes up from there.
My brother is a diamond elitestatus.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
I think I'm platinum elite when it comes to holiday
inns.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
So my brother's the highest status you can get with
the hotel.
Yeah, this is nice, and mybrother knows the fucking deal
with staying at these hotels andwhen we go deer hunting he
always books it with his pointsbecause he has like fucking 40
days does he make you guys allbuy him dinner for like the free
?
Speaker 1 (15:51):
room too, not at all not at all.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
He only wants cash.
But we uh, we decide we're.
We're not going to use up abunch of his points and we're
going to stay at the Super 8.
And we go, or maybe it's Motel6.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
I don't know, whatever the fuck See there, you
kind of know, like you know,what you might be getting into.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
You might be, getting into some like stale sheets and
Prairie du Chien.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
An old faucet and, like whatever Toilet, fucking
leaks.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
third, 35 minutes or whatever so the people working
there are fucking rude.
It's a husband and wife combo.
They were pissed because theywere sitting out in front
smoking and they had to come inand take our shit.
You know, and I'm not gonna saymy brother was inebriated at
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the time, but he may.
He may have been drinking alittle bit, okay oh, I was so
pissed in that lobby I fuckingdug into my cooler and grabbed
myself a beer and I was justdrinking sitting at the desk man
so we check in and they make itvery, very difficult on us, but
they ultimately give us a roomand we go up to our room and
(17:08):
every single thing in that roomis broken, much less.
Much like what you just talkedabout.
The heating and cooling wasbroke, the refrigerator was
broke, the fucking tv was broke.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Uh, the place was fucking dirty yeah, that was the
other thing I had for a note isthis place only had four
channels disney, murder channelgolf and discovery swamp people
that's a good combination.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
So everyone.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
so we check in and my brother says I want a first
floor room and the guy goes.
Why?
The guy goes, we don't have anyavailable.
And my brother's like bullshit,there's nobody at this fucking
hotel.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Your brother's one of those guys that complains about
not getting what he wants.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
No, because they were off to like a bad start already
and we have like a week's worthof gear to drag up and down the
stairs and we bring our guns.
You should have said that first.
And we bring our guns and ourbows and all that stuff and it's
just, it's a pain in the assrunning up and down stairs and
none of these fucking littlemotels out there have elevators.
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So my brother's already a littlepissed that they won't give us
a first floor room.
And uh, they're like well, wehave one.
We have only like four openright now, but we have people
that already have them reservedon friday.
And my brother's like I'mdiamond plus elite, like I Like
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I'm Diamond Plus Elite, likeit's in the thing that because
of my status I get to bumppeople.
And he's like I want to bumpsomebody for a first floor room.
I don't give a fuck.
And the guy's like I'm notdoing it.
He's like you can call yourfucking Diamond Plus Elite and
whatever.
(19:05):
So the guy checks us into thesecond floor room.
We go up and look at it beforewe bring anything up.
Everything's fucking broken,it's dirty, it's nasty.
And my brother just goes downand very calmly says I need you
to cancel my reservation andrefund my card and I want a
receipt that this is done.
(19:26):
The guy's like I can't do thatand you know this little husband
wife team own this place.
He's like super fuckingrednecks, you know okay.
And uh, they're like we can't dothat.
And my brother's like do youknow how many fucking hotels I
stay in?
You can fucking do that right.
And my brother's like do youknow how many fucking hotels I
stay in?
You can fucking do that rightnow.
(19:47):
He's like I'm going to callcorporate and I'm going to get
the shit reversed right fuckingnow.
And the guy's like, well, wegot no way to do it, we can't do
it.
He's like call your corporateand he's like, unless you give
me a valid reason why you'recanceling your reservation, that
money's mine.
And uh, my brother literallystarts like progressively
(20:12):
getting more and more angryuntil he's fucking screaming at
them in the lobby and they won'trefund his money that was
another thing.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Katie was like dude.
Katie was like I can't believeI've never seen you remain calm
like that before she thought Iwas gonna just tear into this
motherfucker.
I was like I'm with my kid here, like I've never.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
My brother's like, hey, we want a refund.
And the guy's like well, what'sthe reason?
He's like because I'mdissatisfied with our room and I
would just like to go findanother place.
The guy's like, well, that'snot a good enough reason.
We ain't giving you your moneyback for that.
And he's like our policy saysand my brother's like I don't
really care what your policysays.
(20:56):
Uh, I'm, I'm a diamond member,which he goes.
Do you know how many hotels Igotta stay in to get a diamond
plus?
He goes.
And the guy's like I don't, Idon't give a fuck what you are.
And then my brother likeimmediately fucking snaps.
I'm like and this dude's gotlike his buddies outside smoking
cigarettes with him.
I'm like are we gonna have tofight a hotel owner in a fucking
(21:19):
parking lot right now overfucking getting back our $37?
Speaker 1 (21:24):
a night.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Fucking.
So my brother actually ends uphaving to call uh the corporate
and he's politely telling thesepeople that they need to
discontinue this shitholesfranchise.
He's like.
He's like, I'm a diamond plusmember.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
I've also heard him say diamond plus because the
reason hundred times the reasonis is because the hotels make
such a big deal to like thankyou normally and like they're
sending you emails all the time,like we appreciate that you are
this and then all this othershit, and then yeah, so when it
comes down to like a complaint,it's like the first thing you
want to do is be like do youunderstand that you've given me
(22:10):
this status?
You've, you've provided me withthis opportunity to use these
high-level metals as my status.
I demand some type of.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Another thing too, is this off-topic, but what we can
do is ask the audience I'msorry we're mumbling here their
stories with bad hotelexperiences.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Yeah, so they can put them in the comments.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Okay, I want to delete that part?
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Go piss, tell me about that.
Can put them in the comments.
Okay, I'm going to delete thatpart.
Go piss, tell me about that tothrow up in your eyes.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
You end that story with tell me your story.
Okay, you know what I'm saying.
Sure, okay, I basicallyunpaused it, you done.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Yeah, I think so.
I mean, my brother is still, tothis day, a Diamond.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Plus, did he get his money back?
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Yeah, he got his money back Did you guys stay
there that night?
No, we didn't.
We went to a different motelthat's under that same umbrella.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
I saw while driving through Indiana and it was a
lovely experience.
An American Inn.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
American Inn.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
I saw on my way down to wherever the fuck I was
driving along the way, a motelseven.
It was a super seven or a motelseven or something.
I'm like what, what?
What's that Big old seven onthe highway?
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Yeah, little bit less franchising fees.
Same shitty quality, you'velearned.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
You know what that reminds me of?
Seven minute amps.
Why would you go in the storeand pick out eight minutes right
, then you see seven minutesright there, duh, you pick out
seven minute amps.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
So off the shitty hotel topic.
So did you stay in a stilthouse?
Speaker 1 (24:03):
No, not a stilt house .
I mean the back half of thehouse, I guess, was kind of off
on stilts, but I think the housewas all on brick frame.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
The patio.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
It was a wraparound patio that ended up, but, dude,
it was so fucking cool, dude, Igot up every morning before the
sun, watched the sunrise, Iwatched the sunrise, I watched
the moon set, the sun set, sodid you happen to stay dude as
you're?
Getting up and early enough inthe morning you see the moon go
down on one side and the suncome up on the other.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Did you happen to stay in a place where you drive
in and there's like aregistration place and then you
drive into it?
Speaker 1 (24:35):
this is like an airbnb private, okay, house on a
hill yeah on a mountain dude.
It was the steepest inclineI've ever driven on and I've
driven we've.
We rented a jeep once when wewere in colorado and we went
off-roading with the thing andlike atvs and stvs or whatever
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the fuck.
We're flying up the fuckinghill and like looking at us like
we were crazy and I'm goingover with my stock Jeep Wrangler
at your price rental place andyou're 2,000 and they go up the
hill and I'm like crank, crank,crank with the highway tires, oh
yeah, dude, it was rough but wedid it.
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Oh yeah, but this shit dude likethis, remember off the highway
when they had that Hummerdealership and there was that
Hummer test track and there wasthe fucking dude this was
straight like those hills,straight fucking up like for 400
feet, 500 foot drivewaystraight fucking up Like you got
to get speed going.
I had the front end hopping alittle bit when we were loaded
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up.
Dude, it was rough man.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
When I took my truck there, my truck has sensors that
beep when you get too close tosomething.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
You're coming up to the back of a car and it starts
going beep, beep, beep, beep,beep, beep, beep, beep, beep,
beep, beep, beep.
The hill was at an incline thatit was.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
It was on such an incline that I couldn't drive it
.
It kept locking the brakes up.
I had to turn all the safetyassist equipment off.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
I've never seen any shit like this.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
I fucking.
The one we stayed in it was twomountains and there were like
30 cabins and there was like amini golf course, a playground,
all this shit to do there, andthe playground was at the bottom
of the mountain and Michellewanted to walk.
So there was like this reallycool trail you took to get down
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to it and she's like, well,let's take the road back.
And I'm like, okay, fuckinghalfway up.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
She's like I have to sit down.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
She sat in the fucking road.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
No, this is, this is secluded as it was there was no
one around full-on calves onfire.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Nothing you could do.
You had to keep pushing throughit yeah, I, yeah, I wouldn't
have walked up this shit, dude,no way yeah but where we were at
, you couldn't even see anotherhouse, but I know it was fun as
fuck because that was a coolplace, man all right, everybody,
that's the story.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
If you've got it yourself a driving through town
story, please leave it in thecomments.
That's for jay.
Jay's so happy that I said thatthis time.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
The hotel part was what I wanted to say.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
If you've ever stayed in a shitty hotel, make sure
you leave it in the comments andmaybe we'll share your story on
air Eventually.
I think we should take thisshow on the road to Twitter
spaces and let people come upand talk with us.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
But we'll get there.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
I don't even know what that is.
It's like your youtube, but novideo.
We're gonna have people come upand talk with us that sounds
cool.
It's awesome.
All right, peace out top shelfstories.
Take your fucking family onvacation.
We'll see you next time.
Top Shelf Stories with J, chris and Tony.
So what's up everybody?
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Thanks for joining us.
Another episode of top shelfstories with chris, jay and tony
.
Today I'm gonna tell you alittle story about family
vacation.
So every year we plan a familyvacation around spring break
time and we like to drive in thecar.
So I'm going to wait for Tonyto come back, because there's no
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sense in telling a story to twopeople in a room when only
one's in the room.
You're taking notes.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
No, I'm right, Tony's taking notes my ass.
So we're taking notes.
No, I'm taking notes my ass.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
So we're taking this family vacation.
We decided we're going to godown to the Great Smoky
Mountains.
We're going to do like six days.
We rented a cabin right on topof the mountain.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
That's amazing.
I did that last year.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Yeah, I think we got a little inspiration from that
maybe, yeah, actually our wivestalked, it's very possible and
you guys were supposed to comewith us.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Whoa what happened.
We should have.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Because it would have been more fun with another
family for sure.
So we were going to take thistrip down.
We were going to leave on aFriday morning, thursday morning
or Friday morning, somethinglike this, but the weather here
in Milwaukee was showing thatthere was going to be some snow.
And we're going to drive andwe're like fuck that shit, let's
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get out of town.
So I went to my app, I gothotel points through Holiday Inn
, picked out a nice hotel nearO'Hare Airport.
Get on the road, get an hour ortwo out of town.
Call it a night, leave afterwork, get a good start in the
morning.
So we showed up at this hotelat about 7.45 or so and my kid
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goes to bed at 8 o'clock Plus.
We were all excited for thistrip.
So we're like shit, we're here,we'll get in trip.
So we're like shit, we're here,we'll get in, we'll.
We'll get in, we'll check in,we'll throw all our bags down,
we'll jump in the pool for alittle while, then we'll crash,
we'll get up in the morning,we'll get going.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Put all our bags on this cart thing, because we were
packed to like not gone for aweek, yeah, and you're in
chicago, so you can't leave afucking napkin on your car
without it getting stolen.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
That and also is I wasn't really planning for this
day.
So my bags are not packed for aday, they're packed for the
next leg of the trip.
So I show up, pull this cart ofluggage into the lobby and wait
.
There's nobody at the frontdesk.
(03:28):
Like well, this is strange.
We'll wait it out a couple moreminutes.
I'm sure the person will beback in a second.
They still don't show up.
Minutes go by, Ten minutes goby.
I mean the kid is like gettinganxious.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
The wife and her went and looked at the pool but it's
a young girl, so she's justsitting there quietly she was
just sitting there quietly ofcourse, so probably brought a
coloring book or something dudesat there for like 20, 25
minutes.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Dude, now it's like 8 , 30, 8, 20 sitting there and
there's another guy who hadgotten locked out.
He had just checked in and Iwas like, dude, where's the guy?
Like, is there a guy or a girlhere, like who's supposed to be
here?
He's like, oh, when I checkedin it was a Big black guy.
I'm like, okay, he's like I'mwaiting for him Because I went,
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I checked in.
He's a guy like he's still inhis orange vest from work and
shit.
He checked in and went acrossthe street to get some food and
came back.
He fucking forgot his keys inhis, in his orange vest.
Is it like a safety vest, likea construction guy?
oh, yeah, yeah, neon he's likeso he's waiting and we're
waiting.
It gets to the point I'm likeall right, I'm gonna call, like
(04:43):
the credit card hotel, ihg hotelthing, like dude, there's
another hotel like a mile and ahalf down the road.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
I'm gonna call them, tell them to move us like
there's nobody here so shesometimes it's not good to be
prepared to it, so this guy waswalking.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
He's like fuck this.
And he starts walking into likethe office area, yelling for
people.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
There's nobody there so now you're stuck there
because you already got it,we're stuck.
See now me I'd be like no one'shere 8, 30.
I didn't fucking plan this.
I'll go to a fucking anotherhotel, dude.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
But you can't, can't, we're waiting.
So I call the thing on my phoneand the lady's like, you know,
press one for this, press twofor that, whatever I get the
lady and she's like, hi, I'mgonna help you.
And I give her the number, thereservation number.
She's like, oh yeah, no, it'swell, would you mind just
holding on a moment?
We got a phone number.
We're gonna call.
We'll get a hold of them, butdon't hang up, did?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
you will get a hold of them, your phone, the phone
next to me starts ringing.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
It had already rang through its cycle.
People were calling this hotelwhile we were waiting.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
I mean we're there for half of an hour.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
You can't do anything .
You can't go to your roombecause you don't know which
room is yours.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
You can't go to the pool because there's a lock
there.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Did you look over the counter?
You can't.
Office of the he was done, dudehe was like playing around with
the computer trying to printhis own key.
Dude, this guy.
This guy was pissed because hehad been working all day.
He'd fucking waiting.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
He went to go get lunch.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
He still didn't eat nothing.
He's hanging out in this bag offood.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
He's waiting in this lobby with these white people.
I got my key printed.
What?
What room are you in?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
he couldn't get into his room neither, and and then
like people are coming down andthey're like what are you?
And I'm like, do you work here?
Do you work here?
Like no, no, no, phone'sringing.
I'm standing there on the phone, it's just it's like beeping in
my ear and bring it over there.
Beeping in my ear, ringing overthere.
I'm like this bitch line likewhat's the deal?
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So I get so frustrated.
I'm like, because it's beenlike five, ten minutes now I've
been waiting on hold so I'm nothold and there's nobody there
and like I'm fucking.
What am I supposed to do?
My kids looking at me likewhat's up, dad?
So so much stress?
That's well the time.
It's already 8 30 now we'resitting here in a freaking hotel
lobby.
We're all excited for ourvacation.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
That they still have any of the continentalinental.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Breakfast stuff out.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Nothing.
No coffee Nothing, nothing.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Dude, I don't even think that CNN was on in the
breakfast room on quiet orwhatever, like it always is.
So finally I'm like fuck this.
So I went and I'm like I'mgoing to pick up that goddamn
phone.
So I picked up the phone,thinking I'd get the lady to
tell her like hi, I'm the guythat's waiting.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
But no.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
I get myself.
It talks into my other ear.
So I got both these phones.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
I talk into myself.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
All she did was transfer us to the front desk.
She was gone, gone.
So then I'm hung up on.
So then I'm like crap.
So I call back again and I'mwaiting.
You know, press two, press this.
What's your reservation number?
How can I help you?
What seems to be the problem,all this stuff?
I'm like can you just there's?
My wife looked it up, I know ofit too.
It's just like three miles downthe road.
(07:57):
Can you just move ourreservation so we can get the
hell out of here?
I've been waiting this lobbyfor 45 minutes.
One moment, sir.
We've got a phone number we cancall.
I'm like no, dude, Lady, youcan't call again.
It just rings Like it's notgoing to work.
Finally, the dude walks in.
Dude walks in, right, I'm likethank God.
So I let the guy who'd beenfucking food, getting cold and
(08:18):
all this shit, I let him get hiskey because I thought that
would just take a second.
No, this freaking key machinewouldn't work.
The guy's swiping the keymachine, he's sitting there
sipping a big foam cup soda andhe's like y'all are lucky.
I came back or came into workearly today.
I don't know what's going on.
I knew it was the samemotherfucker, cause this guy's
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eyes behind me the guy he was.
He was livid, right, so anyways, it takes like six, seven.
So anyways, takes like six,seven times, checks in, gets the
guy going.
Then he checks us in, gets usgoing, gets us into our room.
We get to our rooms.
You're like don't worry,there's a little construction,
we're gonna put you on floorfour.
And he laughs.
I'm like dude, don't do me likethat, don't.
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I was like dude, I seen whatyou just did.
You laughed, just put me, comeon.
So he's like I know, I'm justkidding.
Four side construction floor.
So you get the elevators, likethe, the plastic is on there
because there's construction inthe hotel and get in the room.
Get in the room, everythinglooks nice in the room like all
right, say bad, whatever, that'sthrough.
We go, we put our, we get kidslike all right, suits on, let's
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go to the fucking pool, eventhough now it's nine o'clock,
not eight o'clock, you know, godown to the pool, just stinks in
there like fucking chlorine,like burn your eyes chlorine.
No towels in the fucking bin forthe for this pool.
Kid goes, dad, I'm scared, Idon't want to swim in this pool.
I'm like all right, whateversounds good for me.
(09:44):
I really didn't want to either,especially now it's fucking
nine o'clock.
I want to get on the road atlike six the next morning like
road and road.
We haven't even, like you know,get a snack in you and hang out
at the hotel for a minute,right, or whatever.
The fucking heater and airconditioner box was like.
It was so bad.
I recorded it on my phone.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
It sounded like an airplane dude.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
It was terrible, my God.
The wife goes down to the frontdesk for something and go out
to smoke a cigarette orsomething.
Me and the kid are sitting inthe room and she's like Dad, my
ears are ringing.
And I'm like my ears areringing too.
What the fuck is this?
The air conditioner I alreadyunplugged because it's too
fucking loud.
The air conditioner I alreadyunplugged because it's too
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fucking loud.
What else could it be?
Speaker 3 (10:30):
the dude, the, the refrigerator was ringing so loud
, so she's like my ears areringing.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
I unplug it and she's like dad, it stopped there, was
that, what, dude?
Then she's dicking around thehotel room.
She finds a tennis ballunderneath the bed nice, which
is like whatever.
It's a tennis ball underneaththe bed, nice, which is like
whatever, it's a tennis ball.
But like what the hell?
This place hasn't even beencleaned since.
The last was like what, anyways?
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And then, oh yeah, the elevator.
So we went down to the.
When we went down to the pool,we took the other elevator, that
the one, like that, was the onethat came up from us.
There was two elevators.
She, she's like I want to takethe stairs.
I'm not going on the elevatoranymore because it like was all
janky as shit.
Uh yeah, dude.
(11:18):
Oh we went down to go havebreakfast in the morning.
I'm like, okay, freecontinental breakfast.
We'll go down there, get somefood in the kids belly, we'll
get on the road there's ahomeless person sleeping in the
fucking area by the coffeemachines.
Uh, the older woman comes downfor filling coffee and she's
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like, hey, good morning, and shelooked like she had about as
good a night as I did god.
And she's like, oh cool, no tea.
Huh, no tea.
So we make our little breakfastfrom the little hot breakfast
area, whatever we're sittingdown, me and the kid and I'm
sitting, and it's like you know,40 feet down a hallway to the
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front desk, and the whole timewe're eating the phone is
ringing and nobody's picking itup.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Nobody, dude, we're eating.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
the phone is ringing and nobody's picking it up.
Nobody, dude.
Well, okay, what is the name ofthis hotel?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
it's that's the thing , so that's the thing I've been.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
I was an outside salesman.
I used to spend like three outof four nights or three out of
five nights of the week on theroad or more, and the one thing
I always told my company was,like I understand, these hotels
are a little more expensiveevery night, but I know that
when I check in it's going to bethe same.
They're going to greet me witha nice greeting, give me a
bottle of water, all this shit.
It's going to be the sameblankets, the same pillows, same
room configuration.
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It'll have a pool, hotbreakfast.
I stay at Holiday Inns.
If that's a problem with you,that's a problem with you.
So it a holiday inn.
Oh, dude, this is the firsttime in my life, dude.
Normally they'll like email,you like a day or two day later
and they're like hi, how wasyour stay?
And like one of the firstquestions is like did they greet
you as a customer lead orwhatever to ruby elite or
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whatever?
The fuck I am how?
many times did the phone ringdude, so bad dude.
So then I go through the wholevacation.
We had a great vacation.
I won't get into here, I justneeded to tell this quick story.
But we get this huge long, thisfive-day vacation.
We did all this great stuff.
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We come back, a couple dayspass and I decide I'm going to
fucking call Because this hotelwas my free night, that I had
earned Plus, even if I paid forit, I'd want my money back.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
So I'm like I want this free night credit back.
Like that was ridiculous.
Dude, you got one of the freenight credits.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
I damn near just drove off at 8.30.
I was like well, I guess we'reheading to Louisville, we're
going to get there a littleearly.
We would have shown up at like3 in the morning.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Louisville, louis, louisville, louisville.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
No, you can't move your tongue.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Louisville, yeah All right Now one of you guys.
It's where we stayed to breakup the trip.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Yeah it's the spot to go yeah, you guys.
You stay at the Drury Inn Spellthat we did not stay at the
Drury, you got to stay at the.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Drury Spell that, you guys.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
One of you 15 here, so got it almost dude.
I call like three, four daysafter we got back and I'm like
hi, I just want to tell somebodyabout my experience at the
hotel.
I didn't have a very good timeand like I just want to express
it, and I'd also like to ask fora refund of my stay.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
I thought it was like all right please hold.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
We're going to get you in touch with the manager at
the hotel.
It rings and rings, and rings,and rings and rings and then
finally someone does pick up andI was like hi, I just wanted to
know.
They said that you were themanager.
And she goes oh, you want totalk to James, or whatever?
Hold on Voicemail.
Still haven't gotten a callback to it.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
I ain't never getting that free.
No, you ain't never getting afree room.
So so my brother is also atraveling salesperson and, uh,
he stays with one group ofhotels now it's hilton for me.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
I switched.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
I switched.
I don't really remember what Ithink it might be the Hilton
group or something I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
American is part of it.
I don't know which ones thoseare American and then there's, I
think, Super 8.
Oh, that's the Choice Hotel.
I think maybe that's a goodprogram.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
And then it goes up from there.
My brother is a diamond elitestatus.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
I think I'm platinum elite when it comes to holiday
inns.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
So my brother's the highest status you can get with
the hotel.
Yeah, this is nice, and mybrother knows the fucking deal
with staying at these hotels andwhen we go deer hunting he
always books it with his pointsbecause he has like fucking 40
days does he make you guys allbuy him dinner for like the free
?
Speaker 1 (15:51):
room too, not at all not at all.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
He only wants cash.
But we uh, we decide we're.
We're not going to use up abunch of his points and we're
going to stay at the Super 8.
And we go, or maybe it's Motel6.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
I don't know, whatever the fuck See there, you
kind of know, like you know,what you might be getting into.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
You might be, getting into some like stale sheets and
Prairie du Chien.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
An old faucet and, like whatever Toilet, fucking
leaks.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
third, 35 minutes or whatever so the people working
there are fucking rude.
It's a husband and wife combo.
They were pissed because theywere sitting out in front
smoking and they had to come inand take our shit.
You know, and I'm not gonna saymy brother was inebriated at
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the time, but he may.
He may have been drinking alittle bit, okay oh, I was so
pissed in that lobby I fuckingdug into my cooler and grabbed
myself a beer and I was justdrinking sitting at the desk man
so we check in and they make itvery, very difficult on us, but
they ultimately give us a roomand we go up to our room and
(17:08):
every single thing in that roomis broken, much less.
Much like what you just talkedabout.
The heating and cooling wasbroke, the refrigerator was
broke, the fucking tv was broke.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Uh, the place was fucking dirty yeah, that was the
other thing I had for a note isthis place only had four
channels disney, murder channelgolf and discovery swamp people
that's a good combination.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
So everyone.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
so we check in and my brother says I want a first
floor room and the guy goes.
Why?
The guy goes, we don't have anyavailable.
And my brother's like bullshit,there's nobody at this fucking
hotel.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Your brother's one of those guys that complains about
not getting what he wants.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
No, because they were off to like a bad start already
and we have like a week's worthof gear to drag up and down the
stairs and we bring our guns.
You should have said that first.
And we bring our guns and ourbows and all that stuff and it's
just, it's a pain in the assrunning up and down stairs and
none of these fucking littlemotels out there have elevators.
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So my brother's already a littlepissed that they won't give us
a first floor room.
And uh, they're like well, wehave one.
We have only like four openright now, but we have people
that already have them reservedon friday.
And my brother's like I'mdiamond plus elite, like I Like
(18:44):
I'm Diamond Plus Elite, likeit's in the thing that because
of my status I get to bumppeople.
And he's like I want to bumpsomebody for a first floor room.
I don't give a fuck.
And the guy's like I'm notdoing it.
He's like you can call yourfucking Diamond Plus Elite and
whatever.
(19:05):
So the guy checks us into thesecond floor room.
We go up and look at it beforewe bring anything up.
Everything's fucking broken,it's dirty, it's nasty.
And my brother just goes downand very calmly says I need you
to cancel my reservation andrefund my card and I want a
receipt that this is done.
(19:26):
The guy's like I can't do thatand you know this little husband
wife team own this place.
He's like super fuckingrednecks, you know okay.
And uh, they're like we can't dothat.
And my brother's like do youknow how many fucking hotels I
stay in?
You can fucking do that right.
And my brother's like do youknow how many fucking hotels I
stay in?
You can fucking do that rightnow.
(19:47):
He's like I'm going to callcorporate and I'm going to get
the shit reversed right fuckingnow.
And the guy's like, well, wegot no way to do it, we can't do
it.
He's like call your corporateand he's like, unless you give
me a valid reason why you'recanceling your reservation, that
money's mine.
And uh, my brother literallystarts like progressively
(20:12):
getting more and more angryuntil he's fucking screaming at
them in the lobby and they won'trefund his money that was
another thing.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Katie was like dude.
Katie was like I can't believeI've never seen you remain calm
like that before she thought Iwas gonna just tear into this
motherfucker.
I was like I'm with my kid here, like I've never.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
My brother's like, hey, we want a refund.
And the guy's like well, what'sthe reason?
He's like because I'mdissatisfied with our room and I
would just like to go findanother place.
The guy's like, well, that'snot a good enough reason.
We ain't giving you your moneyback for that.
And he's like our policy saysand my brother's like I don't
really care what your policysays.
(20:56):
Uh, I'm, I'm a diamond member,which he goes.
Do you know how many hotels Igotta stay in to get a diamond
plus?
He goes.
And the guy's like I don't, Idon't give a fuck what you are.
And then my brother likeimmediately fucking snaps.
I'm like and this dude's gotlike his buddies outside smoking
cigarettes with him.
I'm like are we gonna have tofight a hotel owner in a fucking
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parking lot right now overfucking getting back our $37?
Speaker 1 (21:24):
a night.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Fucking.
So my brother actually ends uphaving to call uh the corporate
and he's politely telling thesepeople that they need to
discontinue this shitholesfranchise.
He's like.
He's like, I'm a diamond plusmember.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
I've also heard him say diamond plus because the
reason hundred times the reasonis is because the hotels make
such a big deal to like thankyou normally and like they're
sending you emails all the time,like we appreciate that you are
this and then all this othershit, and then yeah, so when it
comes down to like a complaint,it's like the first thing you
want to do is be like do youunderstand that you've given me
(22:10):
this status?
You've, you've provided me withthis opportunity to use these
high-level metals as my status.
I demand some type of.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Another thing too, is this off-topic, but what we can
do is ask the audience I'msorry we're mumbling here their
stories with bad hotelexperiences.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Yeah, so they can put them in the comments.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Okay, I want to delete that part?
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Go piss, tell me about that.
Can put them in the comments.
Okay, I'm going to delete thatpart.
Go piss, tell me about that tothrow up in your eyes.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
You end that story with tell me your story.
Okay, you know what I'm saying.
Sure, okay, I basicallyunpaused it, you done.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Yeah, I think so.
I mean, my brother is still, tothis day, a Diamond.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Plus, did he get his money back?
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Yeah, he got his money back Did you guys stay
there that night?
No, we didn't.
We went to a different motelthat's under that same umbrella.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
I saw while driving through Indiana and it was a
lovely experience.
An American Inn.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
American Inn.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
I saw on my way down to wherever the fuck I was
driving along the way, a motelseven.
It was a super seven or a motelseven or something.
I'm like what, what?
What's that Big old seven onthe highway?
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Yeah, little bit less franchising fees.
Same shitty quality, you'velearned.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
You know what that reminds me of?
Seven minute amps.
Why would you go in the storeand pick out eight minutes right
, then you see seven minutesright there, duh, you pick out
seven minute amps.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
So off the shitty hotel topic.
So did you stay in a stilthouse?
Speaker 1 (24:03):
No, not a stilt house .
I mean the back half of thehouse, I guess, was kind of off
on stilts, but I think the housewas all on brick frame.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
The patio.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
It was a wraparound patio that ended up, but, dude,
it was so fucking cool, dude, Igot up every morning before the
sun, watched the sunrise, Iwatched the sunrise, I watched
the moon set, the sun set, sodid you happen to stay dude as
you're?
Getting up and early enough inthe morning you see the moon go
down on one side and the suncome up on the other.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Did you happen to stay in a place where you drive
in and there's like aregistration place and then you
drive into it?
Speaker 1 (24:35):
this is like an airbnb private, okay, house on a
hill yeah on a mountain dude.
It was the steepest inclineI've ever driven on and I've
driven we've.
We rented a jeep once when wewere in colorado and we went
off-roading with the thing andlike atvs and stvs or whatever
(24:55):
the fuck.
We're flying up the fuckinghill and like looking at us like
we were crazy and I'm goingover with my stock Jeep Wrangler
at your price rental place andyou're 2,000 and they go up the
hill and I'm like crank, crank,crank with the highway tires, oh
yeah, dude, it was rough but wedid it.
(25:16):
Oh yeah, but this shit dude likethis, remember off the highway
when they had that Hummerdealership and there was that
Hummer test track and there wasthe fucking dude this was
straight like those hills,straight fucking up like for 400
feet, 500 foot drivewaystraight fucking up Like you got
to get speed going.
I had the front end hopping alittle bit when we were loaded
(25:37):
up.
Dude, it was rough man.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
When I took my truck there, my truck has sensors that
beep when you get too close tosomething.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
You're coming up to the back of a car and it starts
going beep, beep, beep, beep,beep, beep, beep, beep, beep,
beep, beep, beep.
The hill was at an incline thatit was.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
It was on such an incline that I couldn't drive it
.
It kept locking the brakes up.
I had to turn all the safetyassist equipment off.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
I've never seen any shit like this.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
I fucking.
The one we stayed in it was twomountains and there were like
30 cabins and there was like amini golf course, a playground,
all this shit to do there, andthe playground was at the bottom
of the mountain and Michellewanted to walk.
So there was like this reallycool trail you took to get down
(26:32):
to it and she's like, well,let's take the road back.
And I'm like, okay, fuckinghalfway up.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
She's like I have to sit down.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
She sat in the fucking road.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
No, this is, this is secluded as it was there was no
one around full-on calves onfire.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Nothing you could do.
You had to keep pushing throughit yeah, I, yeah, I wouldn't
have walked up this shit, dude,no way yeah but where we were at
, you couldn't even see anotherhouse, but I know it was fun as
fuck because that was a coolplace, man all right, everybody,
that's the story.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
If you've got it yourself a driving through town
story, please leave it in thecomments.
That's for jay.
Jay's so happy that I said thatthis time.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
The hotel part was what I wanted to say.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
If you've ever stayed in a shitty hotel, make sure
you leave it in the comments andmaybe we'll share your story on
air Eventually.
I think we should take thisshow on the road to Twitter
spaces and let people come upand talk with us.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
But we'll get there.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
I don't even know what that is.
It's like your youtube, but novideo.
We're gonna have people come upand talk with us that sounds
cool.
It's awesome.
All right, peace out top shelfstories.
Take your fucking family onvacation.
We'll see you next time.
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