Draw The Bug

[LuckyCharms]

I might have posted this before, I can't remember.

I'm going completely from memory here...I think the year was 1989. This happened at one of two places, I can't remember which.

It was either at a concert at an amusement park in upstate New York (famous park, the name slips my mind), or it was down in Bucks County Pennsylvania ( near New Hope).

My then girlfriend and I booked a weekend getaway. We reserved a room at an EconoLodge. We checked in, and walked into the room. There were two huge bugs on the bathroom floor, probably roaches. One dead, one slightly alive.

I said to my girlfriend "we're not staying here". We drove down the street about a mile to another hotel, and as luck would have it, they had rooms available. So I booked a room there.

We went back to the original hotel and walked into the office. The guy behind the desk was a foreigner and spoke broken English.

Me: We're not staying here. Please credit my credit card. We're leaving.

Him: Why?

Me: There's bugs in the room.

Him: No bug.

Me: Yes, bug

Him: No bug

Me: Yes, bug

Him: He handed me a piece of paper and a marker, and said "draw the bug".

Me: What?

Him angrily: DRAW THE BUG!!

So I drew something like the below, slapped the paper on the counter, and said: BUG!

He looked at the drawing for a moment, said "OK", credited my credit card for the charges, and we went to the other hotel.

[chouchou]

1. Tiny hands and feet. Color it orange and it looks like somebody we know...and don't like.

[MadameButterfly]

10. Have you ever seen Trump smile exuberantly like that?

Besides, this bug is way too cute to resemble Trump.
Very cute bug. Thanks.

[chouchou]

12. Your words are true. Actually, the cute bug would be a far better President.

....and probably keep the Whitehouse garden as it should be,,

[MadameButterfly]

14. Oh, the Whitehouse garden! WTF?

Add appreciation of nature to the list of basic human instincts he can't relate to, like the exuberant smile, a laugh, petting a cat....

[Solly Mack]

2. That's not a bug. That's the entertainment.

[LuckyCharms]

3. LOL

[Solly Mack]

8. You missed out. :)

[AllaN01Bear]

4. howdi

i just grabbed a a4 sheett of paper and my pen and drew mr. bug.

[Marie Marie]

5. New Hope PA - coolest town back in the late 60's early 70's.

[LuckyCharms]

7. There was a great record store there called "Now and Then" I believe. Right before the bridge

to New Jersey. I don't think it's there anymore.

[rsdsharp]

6. A number of years ago my sister took a trip around the world.

When she checked into her hotel room in, I think, the Philippines (but it might have been India) she was unpacking when she saw a large lizard looking at her from the wall. 🧐

My sister’s motto was always “When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream a shout,” 😱 which she proceeded to do on this occasion. She grabbed the phone, got the front desk, and began screaming incoherently, her babbling occasionally interspersed with LIZARD!!!!!

The front desk said they’d send somebody right up, and within minutes, there was a knock on the door. When she opened it, there stood the bellman with an even larger lizard, er, salamander, which were deliberately placed in the rooms to eat bugs. The front desk had thought she was complaining that her salamander was too small!

[skylucy]

9. LOL! Thanks for the laugh!

[Kali]

11. !

[Niagara]

13. LOL!

[Conjuay]

15. Perhaps he thought you meant "no bed"?