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About 6 years ago, I stayed in a motel in a decent-sized South Carolina town. I checked the other motels in a bigger town about 10 miles away, but I was on a VERY tight budget, so I chose the first motel. The parking lot was full of potholes, my room was at the back and faced a scraggly-looking field, and I could tell from some of the clientele that maybe it wasn't just people driving through looking for a place to spend the night, if you know what I mean. The manager had to get his kid off the computer to use the credit card machine, as both shared a phone line.

At the room, the door wouldn't lock, so the manager had to come fix it. The room reeked of cigarette smoke, the room was clean enough but obviously the furniture had seen better days (dingy and had a couple of cigarette burns on it), and I saw a blue spot on a pillow that appeared to be either mold or ball point ink. The bathroom window was cracked and opened onto an air shaft, and the tile and sink looked like the maid (I think she was the owner's wife... it seemed to be a family operation) had tried to clean them but just couldn't get all the grunge off them. Back in the room, the TV had cable with all the regular channels... and on Channel 72, hard-core porn that seemed to be on a loop, as the same scenes were showing at 9 am the next morning that were on at 9 pm the night before. The next morning, someone was fixing the roof.

But it did look like the manager at least was trying to keep the place up on what was probably a shoestring budget; and he did work on that door until the lock was fixed. And although I thought I saw a spider web in the bathroom, I never did see one bug and the plumbing worked fine. Yes, I did stay the night. No, nobody broke into either the room or the car. Ironically, the next night, I stayed at a Days Inn in Charlotte... and saw an ant in the bathroom, maybe two -- I forget.