Little Guests

There are two Hampton Inn's that I have to choose from when staying in a town for work: the new, clean, updated one or the old, dirty, outdated one that allows smoking. When the nice one is booked (i.e., I wait until the last minute) I have to stay at the nasty one (when every time I stay there, something is wrong...used soap and a questionable little hair in the shower...an AC that goes out at 3 in the morning...hair...smoke filtrating in from the cigarette being enjoyed next door...and this last time, get this: all of the front row parking is now reserved for Diamond members. What?! I have been driving around all day and working and now I have to park at the back of the hotel parking lot at the hotel I don't want to even stay at? Come on...). However, frustrations aside, I walked into my room and found this:

It's like they knew how unhappy I was to have to stay there and wanted to make it up to me. I said to myself, "I'll take it!" I had to give it to them. They were trying. 

This nice letter and mediocre snack basket had me on cloud 8 for about 5 minutes. And then I noticed the letter next to my basket. The one that said, "Perhaps you have noticed the proliferation of our little guests when you checked in today." ......beg pardon?

Beetle mania? Hmm....I wonder if I wasn't the only Guest of the Day. I wonder if we all got Guest of the Day baskets because they wanted us all  to feel so special and singled out that we wouldn't notice the beetles. Heck, even I didn't notice the letter with three of them dancing on it and it was right NEXT to the snack basket. To think I had actually forgiven them about the parking spots. 

Turns out, all Hamptons have created the diamond member reserved spots (the ONLY good parking after a long day). I discovered this three days later when I did another overnight, even farther away. You know what I did? Parked in the diamond level spot. I'm a gold member. But geez, I give these guys business 2-3 times a month and feel like I have a stinkin' right to park where I want!

And you know what happened??

Nothing. Not a bat of an eye. I do believe I will park there until the I can rightfully call the spot my own.