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Speaking with a Jamaican accent, Colin Ferguson said he was from Louisiana and needed a room. The India-born general manager of the Royal Motel in Long Beach, California, looked at his would-be guest, a bulky black man who admitted to being unemployed, and said, "O.K., but if you're not good I won't let you stay here." "But," Nick Bhakta recalls, "he was good. Every day he did not stay in the room. He came only in the nighttime." Bhakta charged $35 a night; Ferguson stayed three weeks. In retrospect, all he really needed was 15 days...
Recall that not long ago, in our mothers' day, the standards were cruel but clear: every room should look like a motel room, only cleaner under the bed. The floors must be immaculate enough to double as plates, in case the guests prefer to eat doggie-style. The kitchen counters should be clean enough for emergency surgery, should the need at some time arise, and the walls should ideally be sterile. The alternative, we all learned in Home Economics, is the deadly scorn of the neighbors and probably plague...
Another first-year asked what was planned forCanaday, comparing it to "a Motel 6 after ahurricane...
...parents decided to take matters into their own hands. On the night of May 14, Bob drove his son to a motel and announced that it was the last room he would pay for if Greg did not ask for a shot of medication. Greg had a bad night. After convincing himself that his dad had died of a heart attack, he found himself drinking from the toilet bowl like a dog. "I thought God commanded me to do it," he recalls. The next morning, when he found Bob alive, he thought, "Oops, something's wrong. Maybe something is wrong...
...corn, beans and wheat. "The government forms asked lots of questions -- what our income was, if we had insurance and how much money we had in the bank," says Oldenberg, who is not optimistic about getting her losses covered. "Maybe at least we'll get reimbursed for our motel bill...