Hotel Room Follies...

So I left Billy with the kids this morning and headed off to Atlanta to attend the book signing for Ree Drummond's new book "Black Heels to Tractor Wheels."

The book signing is a blog for another time because I'm in the hotel room and it has a slooooow server. 

I have no idea what a server is. 

In this case I mean the thing that hooks you into the internet. 

That dad blamed Internet. 

So something happened in the hotel room that was moderately funny but I was the only one there to think it was funny. 

See...

Mouthwash and Shower Gel look exactly the same. 

However...

They don't taste the same:

So...watch out for it. 

Blech!

The same kinda thing happened on Rage Against the Minivan a few months ago. 

It was way funnier than my story. 

So...

It reminded me of another story about another problem I had in a hotel room. 

I wrote a note about it on Facebook a good while back. 

Here it is:

So there is a growing trend in hotels right now that is a very noble effort to be green.

 The idea is that you have to insert your room key into a little box when you walk into the room in order for the lights to go on so when you leave the room and have to take your key, the lights won’t stay on when no one’s there. 

It sounds good. 

I'm all for it. 

Just a word of warning: When you are 7 months pregnant and you go to Italy and you are in the tiny bathroom shower and your husband wants to leave the room to check his e-mail make sure you tell him to leave the key.

Because the result...

 Well, its not pretty. 

It involves water and anger and tile floors and lots of groping around in the dark and finally shivering in a corner for 30 minutes until he comes back.

Which makes me think of Italy and reading my Bible - not that I did much of that in Italy - don't get excited for me. See, I put chapter tabs on my Bible when I was going through a labeling phase and now every time I open my Bible I see Roma instead of Romans and it makes me want to go.

And it makes me a little resentful that I'm not there right now.

And I wish I was there.

Even though there is a chance I'd end up shivering in a corner.

Sheesh...maybe I should stay out of hotel rooms.