Relaxation begins

Vacation in Tennessee started out great. I made all the right turns, hit my exits without having to drive farther and make u-turns and made excellent time. Our hotel room was a different story. We got to Econo Lodge around 6:30 p.m. Right off I noticed a leak in the ceiling, coming down the wall, and bubbling the paint. It was coming from above us, leaking in the bathroom and the sink beside the bathroom. Assuming the room above us is layed out exactly like ours, we figured the leak was from the restroom on the second level.

Ric gets on the phone and calls the office. Right away a maintenace man is knocking at our door. His first words out of his mouth, "Is it that pesty leak again?" He walks over to the sink, looks up and sees the water coming from the ceiling, down the wall and says, "I'll go upstairs and see what is going on." We wait in our room.

Thirty minutes go by and we hear nothing. By this time the bubble in the paint has grown and water is now running on the counter top, yellow water! Ric gets on the phone again and calls the office and asks what's going on. Again, in a few minutes the handy, dandy maintenance man is knocking at the door. "It's getting worse, huh?" He tells us he cannot figure out where it's coming from because above us is total concrete. He tells us he will go upstairs again to see if he can find something. Again, we wait.

Hearing nothing for another 1/2 hour, Ric and Patrick go to the office and demand another room. First the hotel clerk tells them there is nothing available, but after Ric tells them we want a refund, a room instantly becomes available!

Ric and Patrick come back to the leaky room and we load our suitcases back on the cart and head upstairs to our new room. I took one last look at the leaking ceiling, running down the wall onto the counter top. It was getting nasty! As I go to turn the light off in the bathroom, I look up at the light...IT IS FULL OF WATER and you can see it still dripping down from above!

We got to our new room. It was cool AND dry! We unpacked out bags, ordered pizza from Jeno's and watched the Twilight Zone on cable....Ahhh, our relaxation adventure begins!