Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Hot Tub Adventures

Oh man. Instant classic. If any post ever merits any kind of award this will be it.
So to set up the situation lets go back about 8 months. We, being Eric, Mike Madsen, and myself all lived in Crestwood apartments. We somehow got the idea that we should move into a house, BUT Mike said he could maybe even buy a house and have us pay rent on it. Well as a lot of people know now, this speculation is now a reality. The funny thing about it, is we dreamed about having a big screen mounted over the fireplace, having more rooms in the basement, and having a hot tub out back on our deck. All of these things have become a reality. Now the best part. In the back of our house there is a shabby hotel. In fact one time Mike M. and I went to this establishment to ask if it would be possible if we did some kind of small service for the hotel in order to use their pool. Well we walked in (sorry this a small tangent) and there was an Israeli/Hindu/Muslim woman standing behind the counter. Now i have no prejudice against her, but honestly if you are going to attend to a hotel...make sure you know English well enough to help those that come in. I'm sure she can get buy with getting a room setup and paid for and stuff, but that's about it. We talked to her and she basically had no idea what we wanted, and we realized this when she said "so you want room?" Apparently the manager was gone, so we just decided to come back. The funny thing was, my roommate was talking to her and we could both tell she had no clue what he was saying, so oddly she looked to me for help. I almost started speaking Spanish to her...but i thought that might confuse her even more. Anyway we finished up the non-conversation we were having with her, and left. Well so now we know this motel is pretty shabby...on top of it we noticed the pool looked disgusting...so we were better off anyway. So the motel is shabby, I'm sure no one ever stays in it, and I'm not sure how it's even still running.
So up until this point, we had been in the hot tub a number of times at night time, ranging from probably 10 up until i think Mike Bready and Cami were in there once until like 3 am...so needless to say, we hadn't ever run into anything. WELL last night, December 18, 2007, this all changed.
Mike, Mike and myself are all chilling in the hot tub, talking about who knows what and just passing the time away. The two Mikes are facing away from this establishment behind our house, while I am situated facing the Motel. All of a sudden i see a light flicker on. I start thinking to myself "well this is new." Then it happens. I see a very large man approach the window. Now i know that one of the first things a lot of people do when they get to a old, run-down, shabby motel is to go IMMEDIATELY to the window and check out the view....ok probably not. Perhaps in a sweet ocean side view hotel, during the day..(mind you this was about 11:30-midnight ish) but most likely not in a residential area, from the window of a shabby hotel. Well i started to laugh a little bit, and I'm sure my roommates thought nothing of it because i'm sure we were discussing something relatively entertaining. Then my chuckles turned to a hardcore laugh because, the guy left the window and then came back and cracked the blinds a little to see better outside. By this time the attention of my roommates is focused on me wondering what the crap I'm laughing at. All i can say is "that, just turn around...that." Well they turn around and immediately lose it. The best part of the whole thing is the guy leaves the window again, comes back and cracks the shades again, THEN, and only after checking one more time decides the coast is clear and proceeds to undress. By this point all of us are laughing so hard, but we couldn't help but look. It was one of those things where you know you SHOULDN'T be looking because A)it's not that funny, or B) it's disturbing. But this was one of those...SO hilarious and disturbing circumstances, you couldn't help but look. The guy leaves the window and comes back...i am truly grateful the window came up to his waist...because i'm pretty sure he was buck naked...Mike says he saw underwear, but i don't know. Regardless it was still massively hilarious. My question is how he didn't see us out there...we DID have the light in the hot tub turned off, as well as all the lights inside the house. We don't' have a back porch light, so there was basically no light out. We were just enjoying the slight sprinkle of rain and the the few stars poking through the clouds here and there. Eventually we saw him go into the other room, and then the lights turned off and that was that. But this experience alone has taught me That while in a hot tub...anything can happen!

2 comments:

Jessica said...

You are so a monkey!

Stephen Robbins said...

Hindu/Israeli/Muslim . . . that's like saying, "it was either an alligator, a cat, or a monkey."

Way to be culturally aware.