Leftovers

Two days a week Luke spends the night in Colorado Springs. His work gave him a budget of up to $500 per month to cover hotel costs for these nights. That may seem like a lot of money, but it really comes out to about $60/night for a hotel which isn't much. The first month Luke tried out several hotels, the first was a budget hotel in his price range, but he gave up after hearing the man in the next room doing drugs. There were a couple other hotels he tried but none seemed to be within our budget. Finally Luke stumbled across a bed and breakfast that offered to give him a good deal to get right under $500/month. At first, it seemed really nice. It was a quiet old couple and the lady would cook breakfast for Luke in the morning. After a couple weeks, Luke starting getting sick of the breakfast (I guess she cooked the same casserole EVERY morning). Then, one night Luke had to work late and they told him they would leave him a key outside. Well, when he got to the B&B there was no key. He rang the doorbell several times and no one answered. He ended up having to drive to another hotel. The next day, the old man called me to try to get ahold of Luke (he doesn't have a cellphone) so I emailed Luke and told him to call the old man from work. Well, the old man apparently went off on Luke for not showing up the night before. He told Luke he needed to "get with the times" and get a cellphone so he could have called the house when the key was not outside.

But then it gets worse...

One of the nights Luke was in Colorado Springs, he went out to dinner and got some sort of crazy hamburger topped with pastrami that he could not finish. It was so tasty that he planned on bringing some home to me so he brought a to go box back to the B&B. Well, when he checked out the next morning he forgot his to go box. So after work (several hours later) he went back to the B&B to pick up the to go box before heading home. The old couple was surprised to see him and when he told them he was there to pick up his food, they warned him that it might be a 'little picked over.' To his surprise, they had picked all the pastrami off his sandwich and even cut it up... talk about weird... who eats a strangers leftovers???

Luke still has to finish out his month at the B&B, but he's not sure if he will keep going back...