Lifestyle Descrimination
Filed under: Triad - May 19, 2008 @ 4:00 pmBeau and I experienced our first round of lifestyle discrimination when we attempted to book a bed and breakfast in the southern part of our state. We were planning on treating TBK to a hot weekend of sex, three-person baths and… well, sex. I did a quick search for bed-and-breakfasts within a reasonable drive and came across one boasting queen sized beds and garden tubs in every suite – excellent. So I called.
Me: “Hi, I’d like to book a room.â€
Her: “Okay, the blue suite is available.â€
Me: “Great. Two things though: One is that we’ll be coming in at about three in the morning, is that a problem?â€
Her: “No, no problemâ€
Me: “Cool. So the other thing is that there are three of us.â€
Her: “Two adults and a small child?â€
Me: “No, three adults.â€
A long silence followed.
Her: “Well, we have an adjacent room you can rent…â€
Me: “No thanks, we all can share a queen bed.â€
Another long silence.
Her: “Umm… well I just don’t know about that.â€
Me: “Really, we already share a queen bed at home.â€
This time, the woman was silent for so long, I thought she may have hung up the phone.
Me: “Are you still there?â€
Her: “Yes.. umm… ahh… well I could see a king sized but a queen… no… erm…. Well I just don’t know…â€
I wait.
Her: “I don’t think I am comfortable with that.â€
I thanked her, and hung up.
-Belle
May 19th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
Ahhh, the pleasure of fucking with a small mind. I would have paid good money to see the look on her face! You guys must post every time something like this happens, very funny.
May 19th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
Bummer. But she’s the one that has to wash the sheets, after all.
May 19th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
Wow. That was incredibly polite, considering the response you would have probably received here (North Carolina).
Still. That stinks. I would have said, “Great! Come on over!”
May 19th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
she was totally jealous
May 19th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
Douchebag,
That is all.
May 19th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
i would have been like… ” YOU don’t NEED to be comfortable with it, WE are the ones that are gonna sleep in the bed ! ! !” i am mean to anybody that deters my path……
May 19th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
that’s ridiculous. their loss i guess. good luck next time!
May 20th, 2008 at 7:49 am
You sitch has been rolling around in my head over night and here’s what I came up with (the obvious).
You have to remember that A: This is Missouri, smack center of the bible belt. You will have problems spanning out in a radius from StL. B: Most people who run B&B’s (I’m going to generalize hugely since I’ve never been to one) must be total stiffs. I picture them as good-natured, but, I don’t know, Square.
Perhaps you should search Alternative Lifestyle B&B:
alternative lifestyle Bed & breakfasts missouri - Google Search
Good Luck
May 20th, 2008 at 9:40 am
It’s okay, we found a MUCH cooler place that didn’t care what we were up to. You’ll hear about our shenanigans there soon.
May 20th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
my favorite part is:
Her: “Yes.. umm… ahh… well I could see a king sized but a queen… no… erm…. Well I just don’t know…â€
–because we all know that naughty things don’t happen in king-sized beds
May 20th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
At least she was polite! It sounds like she was at a loss more than overtly hostile. Would that more people had this much class when challenged like this. I can think of several ways this could have been much, much worse.
But yeah, offering a king size? Grasping for a handle on things, it sounds…
May 21st, 2008 at 7:43 am
OH, poor granny. She’s going to be thinking about you while at church for months of Sundays to come.
May 21st, 2008 at 8:35 pm
The Caveman and I have stayed at an gay owned b&b at and the Guest House was one of the friendliest places in Rehoboth Beach, DE. P.S. No one looked as us funny for being straight ;-).
May 23rd, 2008 at 12:00 am
I don’t know why it would have been any of their business and for that matter there would be no need to even offer the information…the best part would be then letting them SPECULATE
hehe…
May 23rd, 2008 at 5:41 pm
Well, the only reason I mentioned it was because all the rooms said, “SLEEPS 2″.