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Things I’ve learned while on the road

I’m still in Wisconsin.  I may have to extend my stay even longer.  We’ll see.  I did find out earlier last week that Company took control over my hotel reservations and extended it to June 2.  Yay.  Yaaaaaaay.  Not sure if I’ll have to stay that long though.

ANYWAY!

That is not the interesting stuff that I’ve learned.  You learn so many interesting things when you’re in the company of middle aged men most of your waking hours.  Nothing inappropriate.  They watch their mouths around me (mostly).  They’re considerate like that.  No, the intersting things I learn from them is mostly from observing their behavior.  People watching.  It’s fun.

Did you know that middle aged men act like old married couples?  It’s true.  They’ll purposely try to piss each other off and then turn around and order the other guy’s favorite drink while he’s away from the table so it’ll be waiting for him when he gets back.  Or it could be so that we can get out of the restauarnt earlier.  They’ll also whine and complain to each other (or to me, I think I’m considered the sympathetic ear).  Espeically about driving skills.

Did you know that some middle aged men really don’t like to be classified as being “middle aged”?  I’m being…kind of generous here too, if you hold to the belief that “middle aged” means that you can double the age and reasonably assume to still be alive when you reach it.  Yeah.  Some of them are really sensitive about their age.  REALLY sensitive.  COMICALLY sensitive.  COMICALLY.

There was more but I can’t remember right now.  I may be delirious with sleep dep.  Or I may not.  It’s your choice (not really).  There totally was some zoymbing today though.

In Wisconsin, people sleep in three hour increments

This is what I have found with my limited experience of Wisconsin.  The first night I was here, I was still in PT and didn’t go to bed until 01:00 CT.  Little did I know that they were doing renovations upstairs, especially in the room directly above mine, and they didn’t put everything away properly.  So, at 04:00 something loud and heavy fell and it jolted me awake.  I only managed a doze after that until 06:30 when I got up for work.

The night after, I tried to go to bed earlier, having only really gotten three hours of sleep the night before.  I turned off the lights at 23:00 and then tada!  A drunked brawl right outside my room at 02:00!  It was the best!  It went on for maybe 20-30 minutes and during most of that time there was some girl shrieking at the top of her lungs.  I think some guy ended up getting in the mix.  Mostly holding down that shrieking girl.  It caused her to shriek more.

The police came toward the end of the whole thing.  They loudly quetsioned people in the hallway outside my room.  During which time, they had to use the elevator like six times.  After they had left, I think one of the girls in the brawl came back upstairs and started pounding on the door of one of the rooms.  She wanted her friend, or whatever, to open the door.  Apparently she paid 150$ for the room and didn’t intend to sleep in the car.

This whole exchange was so loud that it woke grampaw up.  He’s on the floor below us.  He apparently got out of bed to try and figure out where all the noise was coming from.  Yeah, it was right outside my door.  FSB was out like a log.  Didn’t hear a thing.  I guess the three hour thing doesn’t apply to him.

This has made me tired enough to make couple nights later, I ended up dreaming about work, which caused me to wake up every two hours.  Sugh.  SUGH.  How is Wisconsin not the most sleep deprived state?