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NOTE: Someone posted a comment on here asking me if I was racist and in haste, I deleted it. I may or may not regret deleting the comment. I haven’t really decided how I feel about that decision. I do believe in freedom of speech. It is, however, my blog. But really, my impulse to delete the comment was not on the comment itself but on my own definition of the word. It all depends on how you define it.

I personally define racism as a person who blankets their preferences entirely by race. I DO NOT! Therefore, no, I don’t consider myself racist. If you have a different definition for the word then you may have a different opinion.

My childhood in the 1970’s and 1980’s was infused with Save the Children commercials featuring impoverished black children starving in Africa. I was the product of a public education system that believed that in spite of the fact that my parents went out of their way to find homes in areas with excellent schools, the children in those “privileged” neighborhoods should be bussed into urban areas therefore swapping resources with the urban students who were bussed into ours- a practice that infuriated my mother and amused me. I pretty much universally preferred and excelled in the urban environment. I enjoyed the diversity and didn’t consider the shortcomings a hardship as I had ample resources at home – a mother who could buy me books and take me to the library when I needed to go. If computers had been around then, no doubt I would have had one. I enjoyed films and tv shows like, “Fame” and dreamed of a more diverse, urban life. I was taught in those schools that when we voted we should vote for the under-dog, consider those less fortunate than us, etc… I think from that kind of thinking many of us sacrificed our own lives and livelihoods for people who were never and have no plans of of ever being real contributors.

When I got that life (in my 30’s – moving to downtown Los Angeles). The MacArthur Park neighborhood at 3rd and Alvarado – Bonnie and I were the ONLY two white girls in the hood for the next 8 years. We LOVED IT! We loved our neighbors and our neighbors loved us! I have over the years developed a love of Central and South American people and their culture. I have countless friends from numerous backgrounds and cultures – everything from Jewish Rabbi’s to ghetto ho’s. The constant moves of my life have granted me a wealth of diverse and fabulous friends! And, in fact, the conversation you commented on was both multi-cultural and multi-racial.

That said, I have spent years, and I mean YEARS, of my life travelling and in hotels that in the US are more and more frequently owned and operated by people first from India and increasingly from the Middle East. I don’t set out to dislike anyone up front, but years of getting kicked around by people that share certain traits will ultimately lead to comments that some may consider racist. I actually love Indian films and Indian novels, and have met countless people from India over the years with whom I have enjoyed delightful conversations. My impression of the culture as a whole is favorable – so much that I fantasize of living there for a 6 months to immerse myself in it. Something that will probably never be in my budget.

Through all of this though, I was raised with the idea that we are responsible for ourselves. That the choices we make every day lead us to the outcome. I didn’t have children because I could never afford it. It is unthinkable to me to use any form of public assistance as a selfish indulgence. So when I hear on the news that sexually irresponsible people in the far reaches of impoverished places are walking across desserts starving with kids by the dozens and WE need to $upport them. I wholeheartedly disagree. When a presidential candidate makes the case that WE need to pay for college for every foreigner that crosses the border, legally or illegally, I also wholeheartedly disagree. Nobody paid my way and fuck you people, I was born here! And for all of these self-indulgent people that feel entitled to a mini-mansion at the expense of the American people – I beg your pardon, NOBODY NEEDS THAT MUCH AUDACITY in their life. And my list goes on and on and on…………

I have dreams of leaving this country because I don’t like, I don’t like being forced to contribute to something that constantly slaps me in the face in favor of others. i.e. Tax deductions given for preferences in hiring minorities and parolees. It slaps me in the face when I can’t get a job because I haven’t been to prison because I’m not a crack head and it slaps me in the face again when I am living in hotels and getting kicked around by the very people that were the incompetent, unqualified tax deduction that got the job over me. And then I lay in bed at night knowing that the crack head running the front desk has a key to my room, my credit card number, etc…

You are free to think of me, and say about me, whatever you like. I am not alone. But people like me have been silenced for so long that we have long ago lost our voices and enough is enough. God bless you!

PS. Where just about everyone over the globe has been affected on some level with this economy (but ya know there's gotta be some asshole out there hoarding it all somewhere - LOL) the compounded cultural frustrations are overwhelming at times (like with the guy at the hotel called me 4 hours after we checked in, FULLY DECLARING THE KITTIES, wanting an additional pet deposit and an additional internet deposit although the internet wasn't working, the toilet was leaking all over the floor, and the shower barely worked. Last over priced room in town - unfortunately). It happens ALL THE TIME and ironically, it only happens with the Indian/Arab owned hotels. But in all fairness, largely courtesy of grant money, they own most of the hotels.........If they make unreasonable demands they're excused based on a cultural misunderstanding. If I complain about it - I'm a racist. If someone like me is passed over for an education grant or a job in favor of a tax deduction it's a smart business strategy or a "more culturally diverse' classroom. If a foreigner faces the same discrimination - it's a law suit............ It is what it is but honestly, I just hate this country. I hate what it's become. But don't get me wrong, I LOVE the people when they are purposeful, productive, pulling their own weight, contributing in whatever way they can. But as children we are taught that "to be a good guest, we are to pick up after ourselves, be polite, courteous, responsible, contribute to the conversation, and not take more than one serving, bring a dish, bring a hostess gift, and without question bring a sparkling personality and interesting conversation. And when you're a guest in someone else's house, you do your best to learn their rules and abide by them while you are there - not to impose your religion, your politics, your bad day, or your personal issues upon them. And if you've overstayed your welcome, aren't well or otherwise able to be a contributing guest then leave." In that same spirit, William Randolph Hearst often invited guests to the Hearst Castle but he had an unwritten rule - if a guest drank more than two drinks they banished. Never welcomed back..............They're a good example to live by and in spite of what some people think - Americans do have a culture and this is an old and established part of it.

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Angela Catirina Jones
Another stay at sandnigger 6. I've figured it out finally - to get excellent service at La Quinta you stay with them more than 3 weeks a year and they give you every possible upgrade and consideration you could ever think of. For just about the same price, you can choose sandnigger 6, stay over a hundred nights a year, and unless you're a crack whore who needs a downstairs room for frequent nightly visitors and micro/fridge to keep your energy up between johns
, they're going to give you the stinkiest, nastiest, upstairs, farthest from EVERYHING room with no toilet paper, no towels, and big fuck you to go with it!
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Benji What?..you stayed THERE!!?!..TWICE?!!...!!.I'm sorry young lady,...but..that clearly makes you a sandnigger lover


Angela Catirina Jones Nope, when I was young and dumb I dated one of those guys once. Lovely person. Never goin' there again. Seriously though, when they know or care NOTHING about the hospitality business - they should get the *F out of it!! And on that note.....they could leave the freakin' country too.


Miss M. Haaaaahaaaa I don't mean to laugh but I swear your adventures make me literally laugh till my side hurts.


Tex OMG...I've been to my share of those. My husband and his mom were visiting family in Indiana a few weeks ago and had car troubles that put them behind on time, so they pull over at the first shitty hotel they can find. There were so many bedbugs in the bed, you could literally see them moving. They called the front desk guy in to see the filth and he ACTUALLY said he couldn't refund their money but would give them a different room. He escorted them to room number 2.....SAME shit! They finally left and filed a stop payment. So gross.


Tex I also once stayed in one where if you walked on the carpet barefoot, your feet turned black....AND there were piss stains on my sheets. And There was a whole group of us so I got to check out multiple rooms....one had a shower with BLOOD all over inside!! Another....they put the key in the door to go in and the door handle fell off!!! REFUND!!!


Mitch I'm rollin here!!!! Hahahahaha and why did you have to include crack whores in your post....everyone has to make a living some how....who am I to judge??


Angela Catirina Jones Miss M., I'm glad you guys at least get a good laugh out of my misery. I swear! I'm on a mission to get these fucktards OUT of the hospitality indsutry!! Marky, I've got nothin' against crack whores. I'm just against them getting better room upgrades than me. That really pisses me off! Dallas, OMG!....I think I've been in most of those hotels this summer. I've worn socks 100% of the time for years becasue of the nasty carpet in most of these hotels - thankfully Motel 6 has gone to Pergo flooring. I come in the door Lysoling EVERYTHING - floor included. My kitties won't even stand on it until I clean it. Oh, and don't even get me started on the remote controls.......sanitize, sanitize, sanitize.... :0/


Angela Catirina Jones Just filed.... Dear Motel 6: Hello,

We stay with your hotels 100 or more nights per year and we have been staying with your chain consistently for the past 20 years. We have been incredibly disappointed in Motel 6 for the past couple of years and this past summer I have filed a few complaints with you when circumstances were beyond inexcusable. I have also written complimentary notes regarding locations that have made significant improvements or reached the standards we had come to expect from Motel 6 in years past - most recently just prior to this email regarding Amarillo, TX (West) and Wichita Falls, TX (Broadway).

Checking into this location in Lubbock, TX this evening we found a virtually empty parking lot and numerous, obviously unoccupied rooms on the first floor. In spite of this, we were told that we could only be given an upstairs room - that there was "absolutely nothing' left in the entire hotel. The first room we were assigned (non-smoking) wreaked of cigar smoke and I went to the manager to ask for a non-smoking room that had not been smoked in. I was moved to the room next door - also wreaking of smoke and this time with a non-working A/C. I again requested a clean room with a working AC and was switched yet again - with much flack from both the property manager and a subsidiary female employee but ONLY AFTER calling your complaint line and having them also contact the property manager. In the process of this, two men were checked into a downstairs, non-smoking room with two beds right in front of us and the manager. I protested to the manager that we had been refused that same type of room because there was ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ELSE available in the entire property. He argued that they had a reservation and (his story changed) only people with reservations get downstairs rooms. AHEM...... I HAD A RESERVATION and I handed him the confirmation number I had given them at check in. He blew me off.

I've stayed at this property numerous times over the past 3 years - both prior to and after your renovations. Prior to it, this hotel was full of crack whores and criminals that populated the balconies at all hours and hookers with johns coming in and out to the downstairs (easily accessible) rooms. You can paint a building, but continuing to offer priority to the extra curricular activities like this doesn't make it a better place for business travelers to stay.

We have booked probably around 100 nights with Motel 6 this year alone, and about 36 more with La Quinta. After about 20 nights with La Quinta they put us on a list for expedited check in, discounted room rates, upgrades for all of our stays at no additional charge (meaning we automatically get a micro/fridge, wi fi, etc..), all in appreciaton for our business. With 100 nights a Motel 6 we're still getting a middle finger in our face more often than not and far too often, in my opinion. In the 1990's when we stayed with Motel 6, the managers were usually semi-retired couples who had a head for business and a level of competence and courteousness that we have come to expect. I don't like your current hiring practices - preferring tax deductable employees over competent qualified employeees, I don't like the lower standards you have set for yourself, I HATE the smart mouthed employees and ghetto level guests you far too often attract. I'm sorry, but I think with only a couple of exceptions (locations we find excellent) you've officially lost our business. I just think you have a right to know why.


Miss M. You forgot ugly, lazy and disrespectful.


Angela Catirina Jones I really try to keep my curse words to a minimum with them but I'm just giving up on them altogether. The Indian owned ones are actually run pretty well (WF and Amarillo both) but they've seriously got Arabs owning a lot of these franchises. That is one race of people that should not be in the American hospitality business. They hate us from the start and I didn't really begin to hate them until they got in the hotel business. Although, the short crooked penis on the one I dated wasn't really a perk in their favor. LOL


Mitch OMG!!!! I'm in tears....by far one of the best threads of the year!!! BAhahahahahahahahahaha deep breath. Aaaaahahahahahaha


Angela Catirina Jones Mitch, bet I can get you a discounted rate on a cheap, ghetto crack whore! :0)


Mitch I'm in !!!


Kayla wow! Angie! This post is just crazy! I am glad you let them know,though! The Service industry we used to know is truly lacking in all areas!


Benji Thats why they dont charge even 100.00 per night...Any way dont forget that the dollar buys so much less these days.


Benji The real problem is however what you said..Only americans can provide quality comfortable accomadations, even for a low low price.


Mitch That's why I only choose American crack whores!!! Hahahahahahaha


Benji Well,,now...the American advantage is not so clear in THAT catagory


Benji Think we are about 17th in math, but maybe # 7 or 8 in Crack Whore Satisfaction.


Angela Catirina Jones Ahhh.....Ben, we have an CRACK WHORE AFFECIANADO in the house


Mitch True....the Russians seem to put out a quality product...as does the Ukraine !!!


Angela Catirina Jones Yeah, I bet. American girls are too busy working their butts off trying to support your lazy, American male, x-box playing, asses to be experts at putting out. Well, if we've got to outsource something it may as well be something that pays nothing and offers minimal benefits. har har


Mitch Hahahaha...and I don't have an x-box....playstation 3 beats it by a mile!!


Benji Of course my knowledge is only hearsay..but..The countries I hear thrown around includes, The Philipines and Puerto Rico,


Angela Catirina Jones OH GREAT.......I just realized no HDTV. DVD player
won't connect. :0(

Mitch Hmmmm have yet to "hear about" the Philipinos....but the Puerto Ricans "I hear" are o.k.


Angela Catirina Jones OMG?....you guys!! ha ha


Benji Yeah..and several of those Eastern European countries like Belgium and some others ending in "stan"


Benji Heyyy..stop with the quotatation marks!!


Mitch Hahahahahahahahah ending in "stan" had me literally laughing out loud!!


Mitch This Benji dude and I need to drink a few ales together in the seedy part of town some day!!


Benji Face it Yankee fan, a crack whore with a foreign accent is crazily exotic, i hear


Mitch Hahahaha can't hear the accent in a moan or scream!! They are usually told not to speak!!! Hahahahahah


Benji I used to love to go to seedy bars man, but now that i am much older,when i go to bars, I like bourgeois type places...that way if I get drunk, I never feel like a loser


Benji Ok..i never get drunk, and the only bars that i attend are sports bars


Benji But crack whores are here to stay, so may as well welcome them with open wallets..i mean.. open arms.


Mitch Dude your last 3 posts just described me to a T !!! Hahahahahaha!! I'm all talk anymore...to old to act !!!


Benji Did not mean to diminish the American ladies..and our women do go through the same grind we go through..but foreign crack whores?..Well.you know how people overrate rare stuff.


Benji I have a neighbor that has a '66 MG Roadster for sale..over priced cause it's rare..been on the market for 9 months. Rare car..but i have to cut myself out of the drivers seat with a can opener


Mitch I'm 6'6" and hovering on 240....I use MG's as hotwheels!!


Benji and to angela; not to appease her just because this is her thread but...American women are aok with me,,FORGET Guess Who..I even married one.


Mitch Ange is easily appeased!!! A little tofu and spinach greens maybe a grilled cheese sandwich and she'll be fine!!


Angela Catirina Jones Ahhh.....you guys know me well. Any time you want to go to a seedy bar and peruse crack whores count me in. Nobody knows the seedy side of town and two-dollar hookers like I do. Ask Missy. LOL


Mitch Why do I not doubt Missy would help lead that charge?? Hahahahaha


Angela Catirina Jones Bonnie just reminded me, I was standing out on the balcony of the courtyard yelling at the manager, "The only way to get a decent room in this hotel is to be a crack whore or a man". Then all the crack whores in the pool mysteriously disappeared not to be seen again yet. LOL


Benji Wow..then knowing ACJ is like having a relative in the pros..you can get free tickets to the games.


Mitch Omg,!!!!!! Hahahahahahaha! Excellent comparison!!! Ahahahahahaaha


Angela Catirina Jones You think that's funny, I had this guy move in above my apartment in LA that woke me up at 4:30 every morning. I finally got fed up with it and went storming down to managers apartment beating on her door like a mad woman and told her to come with me. I stormed up the stairs, beating on his door until he finnnnnaaaallly CAME. When he opened it he said - doofus, "Is there a problem?". ME, screaming, furious , raving mad at lost sleep for two months in a row: "YOU'RE FUCKING TOO LOUD!! YOU WAKE ME UP AT 4 AM EVERY SINGLE DAY - FUCKING TOOOOOO LOUD!!!" ....................our building manager fell down the stairs laughing. The guy moved out two days later. I got sleeeeeep. LOL


Benji There was a time when our diets were the same Angela,. It comes with the California turf..except that I was a pure vegan..no dairy.But now 20 years later..tommorrow I grill steaks beef ribs, an' chickin' wangs


Angela Catirina Jones I'm total vegan except my occasional affair with my two favorite guys, Ben and Jerry - LOL. 36 years now. I'm on a serious cookie kick these days though. :0(


Benji Is there a program somewhere like AA or NA, for people who want to get off of animal flesh?..I struggle


Angela Catirina Jones You're right - Cali makes veggie life so much easier.


Benji yes indeed


Benji I feel so violated now, living back home in FL.


Angela Catirina Jones I would think Florida would be excellent for a vegan diet??? I'm scared of the critters down there though.


Benji I lived in Santa Cruz, pop. 46,000 back in the 80s. it litterally had ONE meat store, 2 big chain super markets, 29 retail healthfood stores, and 41 wholesale health food outlets..These are TRUE stats..I went through the Yellow Pages and COUNTED. i still remember the stats.


Benji I physically drove around there for years, and the stats include CAPITOLA, and APTOS, the adjacent communities


Angela Catirina Jones Santa Cruz is GORGEOUS!! I doubt the stats have changed much. I lived in downtown LA for nearly 10 years, after nearly a year in the same motel that Robert Downy Jr. got arrested with the crack whore - LOL...TRUE....and then 6 miserable months in Pacific Beach at San Diego. I loved downtown LA best.


Benji That confirmed those stats.


Mitch Ahhhh the wonders of the new facebook...everyone can now read a post you made!! One of my friends just saw me talking on this thread (a woman) and she just told me to tell Angela that her posts about Motel 6 had her peeing in her pants!! I guess I better be careful...my pastor is a friend on facebook !!! Gulp!!


Benji Not the Alexandria hotel was it?


Benji I lived there when i first moved there, would look out of the window from the 3rd floor and watch them film a new TV series called HUNTER, starring Fred Dryer


Angela Catirina Jones LOL @ Marky, I don't hide from anyone. ha ha ha...... @ Benji, The Baldwin Motel in Mar Vista - they've since torn it down


Benji I was and extra in that movie 7 with Pitt and Freeman..played the part of a sky cap..they filmed it at the Frontier hotel..watched them film Brewster's Millions there too


Angela Catirina Jones cool


Mitch I don't either or I wouldn't say half the crap I do!!! Hahahahaha! And after this thread...I gues I'll find out who my friends really are hahahahaha


Benji gotta look up Mar Vista


Angela Catirina Jones your true friends are the people who love you in spite of you. I love you Mitchie!....in spite of you. :0)


Benji Ok thats near Culver City..i thought you meant downtown


Angela Catirina Jones The Baldwin Motel was near Culver City but in Mar Vista. I lived downtown (3rd & Alvarado) for nearly 10 years.


Benji I'll tell you this, if you lived in califronia for a good spell..you experienced an odyssey..fantastic memories


Mitch True dat Ange!!! And on that...this old white dude needs to put his kids to bed and then go to bed myself and remember my glory days in the seedy places...while sipping on a merlot and watching sportscenter!!! My how times have changed!!! I'm simply a shell of my former self!! Hahahaha but wouldn't change a thing!! Night freaks!!


Angela Catirina Jones amen!!


Angela Catirina Jones Ditto Marky. I'm going to hug the kitties and crochet some more on this elephant afghan. Night ya'll. xoxo


Benji FUCK!!..sorry..had to say it..girl you are very frikkin special


Angela Catirina Jones Thanks Benji. G;night


Angela Catirina Jones ‎Mitch <<<< :0) Benji I'd sleep good with you in my foxhole


Angela Catirina Jones ha ha


Benji Nice to meet you Yankee Fan


Angela Catirina Jones I went to 13 schools before I graduated high school. My mom used to tease me about making friends with the biggest, meanest for protection. Foxhole theory. lOL


Benji u r a savvy fox


Mitch Great convo tonight!!! Likewise Ben...ya made me literally laugh outloud several times!!


Miss M. HEY NOW...I see how it is, I get pulled into an alternate conversation and I skewered over here. WOW. I am not denying any of this mind you. Best freaking post since your last rant Angie...seriously!! You could do this for a living. haha. I would pay to listen to it. Hell, the entertainment at Cheddars hearing about ShitBob Drop Pants is worth paying for your meal. hahahah. I too have had to watch what I post now on Facebook thanks to the lovely scroll overthere...now EVERYONE can see the type of people you consort with on here.


Angela Catirina Jones I wondered why you drifted???...........Oh! So now you're saying you're ashamed of me????


Angela Catirina Jones Oh girl....10 fingers..10 convos....GET OFF THE MEDS!! lol

Angela Catirina Jones
SECOND LETTER IN TWO DAYS - DEAR MOTEL 6, I wrote you last night regarding issues we had with checking into this hotel and it requiring 3 room changes and a phone call to your corporate office after the manager was rude to find a clean, working room.

Day two of our stay has been filled with smoke in our room from the 5 people staying in the room next door to us. Whatever they are smoking or cooking doesn't exactly smell like normal tobacco. We have been sick all afternoon and evening from the smell, and the frat house coming and going next door is one thing but listening to the moaning and groaning next door, and the pounding on the door for the next couple to get in is more entertainment than we ever expected. Given that it is now midnight and this started before we woke up this morning - unacceptable!!

Walking in the courtyard earlier this afternoon, attempting to clear our heads, we came across two downstairs rooms on the west side of the courtyard with huge holes broken through the glass. I asked a housekeeper what had happened and she said, "Oh that? That's been that way forever. They just haven't fixed it yet." You would think they would at least remove the broken glass and board it up for safety.

Again, if you wonder why your hotels are losing business travellers like us (around 100 nights with you this year already) - the low standard s you have chosen to set for yourselves says it all. I can't tell you how many second and third, and multiple chances we have given this chain this year because we have been loyal to you now for 20 years but when I say I done - I'M DONE. I'm sorry you've taken the stance of catering to prostitutes, druggies, thugs, and the like. They seem to now not only represent Motel 6 as employees but as residents.

Another unfortunate turn in the American corporate landscape. Hopefully the tax deductions your getting out of this will offset the business you're destined to lose.

Kindest Regards, Angela & Bonnie Angela Catirina Jones


THIRD LETTER IN TWO DAYS - DEAR MOTEL 6 Just a little follow up for the last two emails on this stay. It's now 3:30AM and the noise and traffic in the room next door hasn't stopped. The entertainment here is endless. The two girls were taking turns dry humping all day and smoking crack (or something like it) between tricks. At one point, one of the girls was beating on the door with a guy tow, trying to get in the room (presumably for their turn) while the other couple was have really loud sex and screaming sexual demands. The other girl is beating on the door and the girl having sex is simultaneously yelling things at the guy she's having sex with and screaming at the door "not yet...I'm cumming!"..........After quitting time, their boyfriends (?) showed up and they've been snorting something the rest of the night. How do I know all of this??? ABSOLUTELY NO insulation. They at some point ran out of whatever drug they were smoking (the one I complained about earlier that was drifting into our room) and the guys went out to get something else. Whatever they came back with they were snorting. And one guy who took a first hit started pounding the walls and choking - yelling things like "bad shit" and "ice" and, I don't know.....there was a lot of commotion.

You're going to wonder if I called the office and the answer is no. After the arguments I had with your manager trying to get a decent room upon check in - and me telling him it was obvious they're still in the practice of saving downstairs rooms for the crack whores they prefer in this hotel and that I intended to report them to every local government agency and him telling me, "Go ahead. I'm not afraid of the police. They work with me." I wouldn't be a bit surprised. He's quite full of himself. He certainly makes it clear what sort of clientelle he values.

No doubt this wont be my last update on this particular Motel 6 stay but rest assured, it will be my LAST Motel 6 stay. .

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