Otherwise Titled "Stupid Shit I Did While Out of Town"
So, I went to Dickens Faire, it was great, but I’ll give my full opinion later, in another post. This post is specifically to touch on the stupid things I did while away. I’m not sure if it’s just any type of traveling that does this to me, I end up not sleeping or not sleeping well, whatever the case I’m sure to do some stupid crap – so, here it goes!
Burned Myself
So there’s a coffee pot in the room, I decide I’m going to make coffee (so far so good). I even remembered to get hot chocolate with breakfast so I can make it palatable. Flash forward to later, coffee is made, I pull the pot from the machine and think “self, why don’t you turn off the coffee maker so it doesn’t short out or start a fire, that’s the responsible thing to do,” so I turn it off. Yeah, I press the off button, but it’s one of those that you have to click over really hard, so to get the appropriate leverage I put my hand down on the machine…yeah…left hand ring, middle and index finger down on the hot plate. I actually heard a sizzle before I yanked my hand away as though I knew I couldn’t POSSIBLY have stuck my hand on that, so I shouldn’t be worried, that was some other fool. OK, a dash to the bathroom sink for cold water and BEHOLD, icy water from the night before…so I spent a good 30 minutes with my hand in a bucket, until the residual burning feeling stopped. Luckily I had already done all my showering and shaving….
Shaving
So I decided that I’m going to make sure I’m all clean and spruced for going off to London (found out later it wouldn’t have mattered how great I was when I left my room, it was sweltering in that friggin’ poly-costume – ugh! I digress..so I put a brand new blade in my razor…and was shaving…and shaving…and shaving and yet no hair removal was going on. Hmmm…so I stared at the razor, it was clean…I’m sure I looked like I monkey trying to figure it out…look at it, shave, look at it, the water, shave…nothing. Oh yeah, put the blade in upside down. FANTASTIC! Put in a new one and it worked like a charm.
Costume Dysfunction
And this is why I like to try everything out at least once but I hadn’t had the opportunity. So, my hoop skirt fits great when I’m au natural – with my corset on it is way too big. So I safety pin the one side, but it causes the other side to droop – thought I fixed it…I didn’t…my tulle hung out below the hemline of my dress. This is both tacky AND dangerous as I kept stepping on it. Luckily someone in the ladies room pinned up the front and I finally stomped on the back to make a hole and ripped the offending fabric off with my hands and teeth.
Locked Myself Out
So, I was exhausted from the day and the not sleeping the night before – I got to my room and managed to change myself. Of course my feet were sore from the shoes but I managed to hobble back and forth to the lobby to ask someone to unzip me. I slipped into something a little more comfortable and then thought, I’m going to put my room service tray outside BEFORE I take a bath and relax.
So, I put the tray outside, it’s not right, just a little farther push – blast it, it should be HERE *click* CRAP, in order to put it along side my wall I had to step completely outside of my room. A quick call to the lobby produced a front desk gal with two all access keys. As she’s trying to open my door “Do you have any I.D.?” It’s ALL in the room, open the room and I’ll show you. “What’s your full name?” Really? I mean, really? Fine….
Then, lo and behold, neither key works…we have to call for Willy, the maintenance guy and he’s really busy with a wallpaper project on the far side of the lobby. So, there, I waited 20 minutes for Wallpaperin’ Willy to come open my room, finally I was inside.
AA Batteries
Well, let’s just say I always assume that my hotel will be within decent walking distance to a facility where I could get a few sundries…it wasn’t and their stupid, little shop didn’t have them either. Frustrations galore!
Interestingly all this happened to me on Saturday, which was my most sleep deprived day of my trip.
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