Veronica Armstrong

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How to be the worst hotel roommate ever. Blog conference edition.

 

How to be the worst hotel roommate ever. Blog conference edition.

  • Arrive a few hours later than planned for your late night 3 hour drive to the city because you were embroiled in a completely and ridiculously insane family drama.
  • Cry hysterically during the long car ride and regale your roommate with a play-by-play of the aforementioned ridiculous drama.
  • Horrify her while she's driving by bumping this song on Spotify:
  • Leave striped grannie panties in plain sight. Clean? Yes. Horrifying? Absolutely.
  • Lock door with deadbolt and then fall into the deepest most drunken sleep you can muster.
  • Continue to doze peacefully while your exhausted and travel weary roommate pounds on the door and calls you on the hotel and call phones repeatedly.
  • Keep right on snoozing peacefully as your roommate has to travel 40 floors down the worlds slowest elevator. TWICE. At 3:00 am-ish to ask hotel security let her in the room.
  • Keep sleeping. Have a sweet dream or two.
  • Wake up early the next morning and listen to your roommate's tale of horror from the previous night.
  • Apologize profusely.
  • Quietly exit the room to shower so your tired roommate can catch an hour or two of sleep.
  • Don't forget to set 3 separate iPhone alarms spaced at 15 minute intervals so your roommate's only chance at catching Zzzs before a long day at the conference is completely and utterly destroyed. RUINED!
  • Apologize profusely.
  • Never ever carry cash. Ever. Ask your roomie to spot you like a hundred times a day. Enjoy the delicious hot dog she buys you.
  • Go out late night RAGING with your husband. Have the time of your life. Stay out super-duper late. Party like its 2999.
  • Enter the room and then proceed to drunkenly and loudly organize the contents of your purse alphabetically.
  • Make plans with your roommate to depart first thing in the morning.
  • Ruin said plans by having a deep sleeping husband who is snoring through his alarm four blocks away at a friend's house.
  • Panic when you realize you don't know the address or phone number of your husband's friend.
  • Leave an hour later than originally planned.
  • Use the three-hour ride home as a free therapy session. Tell your roomie about all the crushing disappointments you've suffered during your lifetime and incredible feats you achieved at grade school spelling bees.
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Congratulations! You're the worst hotel roommate and blog conference travel companion ever.

This list was inspired by real events. It is a real life how-to from me to you. A few of these events have been slightly embellished, I'm sad to say that I did these things to my roomie.

Sorry Joanna.

I love you girl! Thanks for not killing me.