OH! I had a horrible motel room once. I was going to school at the U of Iowa after transferring from KU. I drove back to visit some friends and got caught in a snow storm in northern Missouri on the way home. I kept thinking I'd drive out if it, but it just got worse, so by the time I pulled off, all the good motel rooms were booked. I stopped at a real hole in the wall. Looked kind of like the Bates Motel, only not quite as nice. There was no telephone in the room (this was before cell phones) I could go to a common area and make a collect call. In the room, the closet was a pipe coming off of a water heater. There were holes in the wall that looked like they were covered with duct tape.....but it seemed clean and it was warm and dry and had a tv. The next morning when I left the snow was knee deep in the parking lot and the lot was full of others like me, glad to have a safe warm place to sleep.
