Adventures in Irish <!Cuisine>

(15:20:27) AoD: So, my turn for a funny story
(15:20:44) AoD: When we got here, we bought 7 day flexpasses for the LUAS, which is the Dublin version of Trax
(15:21:09) AoD: On Tuesday night, I decided to come back to the office after dinner and work some more
(15:21:49) AoD: So I rode the LUAS back to the office after we ate, and got to N's offices to find my supposedly-24-hour access code was only good between 7am and 11pm
(15:22:19) Radar: hehe
(15:22:31) AoD: The LUAS ride from the hotel to novell is about the same as it would have been from the Trax University stop to the old INS offices
(15:22:40) AoD: maybe a bit further, like Gateway
(15:22:51) Radar: so about 20 min?
(15:23:08) AoD: about that, yes
(15:23:21) AoD: I got back on the LUAS, and just a few stops down the line, an agent asks for my ticket, so I show him my 7 day "Flexipass"
(15:23:33) AoD: He informs me that my pass is not good for "Night LUAS"
(15:23:44) AoD: And proceeds to show me in tiny print on the back where it says that
(15:23:52) AoD: I ask "What is 'Night LUAS'?"
(15:24:10) AoD: He says "Anything from half-eleven onwards."
(15:24:18) AoD: I ask "Half-eleven?"
(15:24:22) Radar: lol
(15:24:45) AoD: He says "Ten hundret and t'irty 'ours."
(15:24:52) AoD: I ask "10:30?"
(15:25:07) AoD: He sighs and says "Ya've got it."
(15:25:25) AoD: "Umm...so where do I get a 'Night LUAS' pass?" I query
(15:26:10) AoD: "At any stop along the line. Now, I can tell ye're not from around here, so I'm naw gonna writecha up, but ya'll have to get off at the next stop."
(15:26:31) AoD: It is at this point that I realize I'm not carrying my wallet with me
(15:26:36) AoD: I have no cash
(15:26:43) Radar: oh no
(15:27:06) AoD: So, I got off the train and started to walk alongside the tracks, because they wind all over town and I'm certain I'll get lost if I leave them.
(15:27:35) Radar: OH NO
(15:27:37) AoD: About 5 blocks later, it starts to rain - no problem, I have a travel umbrella
(15:28:10) AoD: Then, the rain freezes on the ground, and I realize just how hard it is to walk a slippery light-rail track in dress shoes
(15:28:32) AoD: Several bruises and one pair of torn pants later, I arrive at the hotel
(15:28:41) Radar: oh man
(15:29:04) AoD: Cold, sore and aching, I think "I'll sit down this hotel restaurant/tavern and have something warm"
(15:29:23) AoD: Convinced I'm some sort of vagrant, the hostess refuses to seat me
(15:29:58) AoD: So I head up to my room only to realize that my card to let me in the room is in my wallet
(15:30:01) AoD: Which...is in the room
(15:30:10) AoD: I walk to the front desk, angry and frustrated, and ask to have them make me another key
(15:30:42) AoD: Looking at my disheveled appearance, the guy demands to see my ID before he'll make me a card
(15:30:48) Radar: lol
(15:30:52) AoD: One guess where the ID is?
(15:31:00) Radar: yup
(15:31:21) AoD: Finally, they make a copy of the card and give it to a bell hop, who follows me up to my room to see the ID before he'll give me the card
(15:31:32) AoD: He then STANDS THERE WITH HIS HAND OUT FOR A TIP
(15:31:35) AoD: A TIP
(15:31:42) Radar: LMAO
(15:31:49) AoD: I shut the door right in his face
(15:32:01) AoD: It felt a little bit good
(15:32:33) AoD: I changed, had a drink of water and left the glass half-full on the bathroom sink and went to bed
(15:33:59) AoD: The next day, I get back to my room to find the glasses that I presume are supposed to be switched with clean glasses every day, are instead the dirty, used glasses from the day before, put back in their rightful place. I can still see the "mouth stain" on the rim of the half-full glass of water from the night before, even though they put one of those fancy paper caps on top of it
(15:34:07) AoD: They didn't even dump out the water
(15:34:20) AoD: I can only assume my treatment of the bellhop got around :)