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Kudos to Linda Rockwell and Staff

Posted By: Coolrey
Date: Wednesday, 14 October 2009, at 6:43 p.m.

In Response To: Kudos to Linda Rockwell and Staff (Bill Riles)

Bill, I was astonished. First off the guy told me he was the FOUR time maintenance man at the facility. He got up early to give me a ride so I thought I should avail myself.

Later I found out the regular driver wanted to "sleep in" so this guy volunteered.

He told me: the other driver told me it is about 18 miles to the airport, which sounded strange to me even though my cab ride from the airport was $34.

Then the guy makes a wrong turn on his FIRST turn.

Then he gets back on the right track and attempts to enter the freeway on the OFF ramp! He notes the DO NOT ENTER sign just in time, and for once I am absolutely speechless. If it had been rush hour, I might have found my voice however.

So he starts driving and follows the airplane signs on the freeway signs. Pretty soon we are in the sticks... and it has been like 45 minutes. It's raining. I said... Even if it WAS 18 miles we have to have passed it, it is the PEORIA airport.

We turn around and pass a sign saying Peoria: 33!

Sigh. I know:

1. I am missing my flight 2. This driver is an idiot, if not the drug addict he looks like.

He gets back on some freeway, and I say can you take me back to the hotel at least? He says yeah. I ask do you know where you are going as the Peoria to the LEFT sign disappears in the rearview mirror and we head towards Idianappolis! He says, yeah, I know where I am going.

We see a Baymont Inn and Suites sign... But he fails to get off on that exit, necessitating a 5 to 6 mile drive further into bum fuck Egypt, before we can exit and get back on the onramp... from the oncoming lane... as my driver seems to prefer almost as much as you like early doubling! (heheeeee, jk)

We get off at the right exit and he is going to turn left, before I inisist that he turn right... and go to the Baymont Inn. This guy would get zero on a true/false test, I am thinking. I just want to get OUT of that Van that said Baymont Inn and Suites.

When I do I call the number on the side of the Van, because we are at... SURPRISE! The wrong Baymont Inn. The desk clerk is incredulous and has no idea who/(m) my driver is!

Uhhhhhhh, can you get my stuff out of the back please? (!)

I call a cab from the other BI&S. I get to the airport at 6 am. I see those in my plane waving at me as it takes off.

I pay an extra $100 to make sure I get home today. I call the hotel twice and insist on speaking to the mgr. I leave my phone number both times, and have yet to receive a call. I don't think I ever will.

Since the guy I am going to talk to is going to be the same guy that hired my driver as his maintenance man, for the FOURTH time, I don't think I will be talking to a rocket scientist... Which is good because he looks like he mighta come from IRAN, anyway. All rocket their scientists are probably over there working on Nukes, at this point. (another joke).

That was the strangest morning I have had in a long time!

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