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SO and I are out of town for a wedding. We've booked a hotel that you have to get a wi-fi prepaid access card for. Apparently the person taking my reservation chose the non-inclusive option rather than the inclusive option. My fault for not verifying, as the price per night was significantly cheaper for non-inclusive and I didn't clue in on it.
So as I'm checking in, the clerk is giving me a lecture about why I didn't book the all inclusive (again, I thought I had; it's a moot point now). They offer one and seven day prepaid cards. I tell SO to grab a 7 day as we're going to be here for 4 days and we are going to have a lot of downtime. SO and I spent most of today taking turns on WoW and Pogo, just to kill time. She also makes it a point of arguing with me that I'm wasting my money on the card, I should just get the day pass; yeah, because $10/day is so much more cost effective than $20/7 days (it works out to be $2.86/day) . I may not be good in math, but I'm not that dumb.
SO can see that I'm tired. I've been up since 4 am, and getting me up that friggin early is a frickin' miracle in his book, so he knows that I am not going to be the most friendly person at 2 in the afternoon when I really need a nap, am hungry and will most likely bite someone's head off if they aren't careful.
So he finally jumps in, tells the clerk that we want the prepaid card, why are you refusing to sell it to us. The clerk turns to him and in a very snotty tone, tells him "Sir, I am talking to your woman, not you. You need to learn to shut up and speak when spoken to." Cue utter and total silence in the world as I hold out my hand for my ID and credit card and very quietly and calmly say "give those back to me." At the same time, SO has backed away from me and the counter and gives me wide berth as I stalk out to the car, pull out my PDA and look up the number for the corporate offices. It's a blur for the next half hour as I tell the CSR that I am canceling my reservations, I will be staying at the hotel the wedding is at and that if there is a charge from this hotel, I will be disputing it fully. Meantime the clerk is standing by the passenger side door threatening me with the police and other things, all within listening range of the CSR; I put the phone on speaker at one point and said to the clerk "go ahead, tell the rep what you just told me." The clerk shut up, but SO was more than happy to repeat it.
Long story short, we did not stay at the hotel last night nor tonight, since there wasn't a room available for the wedding party. SOs sister put us up for two nights, and there will be a couple of rooms open at the hotel where the wedding is taking place tomorrow. SIL managed to negotiate us a discounted rate for tomorrow and Sunday nights, and I have been talking to various people all day from the corporate offices of hotel we are not staying at to get the full story.
So as I'm checking in, the clerk is giving me a lecture about why I didn't book the all inclusive (again, I thought I had; it's a moot point now). They offer one and seven day prepaid cards. I tell SO to grab a 7 day as we're going to be here for 4 days and we are going to have a lot of downtime. SO and I spent most of today taking turns on WoW and Pogo, just to kill time. She also makes it a point of arguing with me that I'm wasting my money on the card, I should just get the day pass; yeah, because $10/day is so much more cost effective than $20/7 days (it works out to be $2.86/day) . I may not be good in math, but I'm not that dumb.
SO can see that I'm tired. I've been up since 4 am, and getting me up that friggin early is a frickin' miracle in his book, so he knows that I am not going to be the most friendly person at 2 in the afternoon when I really need a nap, am hungry and will most likely bite someone's head off if they aren't careful.
So he finally jumps in, tells the clerk that we want the prepaid card, why are you refusing to sell it to us. The clerk turns to him and in a very snotty tone, tells him "Sir, I am talking to your woman, not you. You need to learn to shut up and speak when spoken to." Cue utter and total silence in the world as I hold out my hand for my ID and credit card and very quietly and calmly say "give those back to me." At the same time, SO has backed away from me and the counter and gives me wide berth as I stalk out to the car, pull out my PDA and look up the number for the corporate offices. It's a blur for the next half hour as I tell the CSR that I am canceling my reservations, I will be staying at the hotel the wedding is at and that if there is a charge from this hotel, I will be disputing it fully. Meantime the clerk is standing by the passenger side door threatening me with the police and other things, all within listening range of the CSR; I put the phone on speaker at one point and said to the clerk "go ahead, tell the rep what you just told me." The clerk shut up, but SO was more than happy to repeat it.
Long story short, we did not stay at the hotel last night nor tonight, since there wasn't a room available for the wedding party. SOs sister put us up for two nights, and there will be a couple of rooms open at the hotel where the wedding is taking place tomorrow. SIL managed to negotiate us a discounted rate for tomorrow and Sunday nights, and I have been talking to various people all day from the corporate offices of hotel we are not staying at to get the full story.
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