Thank you FTC, for allowing the continuation of bad parents

F**ck you FTC!

The FTC is suing Amazon because it is too easy for children to make in app purchases. This wouldn’t happen if parents would stop using technology to entertain their spawn. How about parents stop throwing their smartphones and tablets at their children when they start crying? Try actually putting down your own smartphone and pay attention to your own children?? That would involve parenting. What I see every day indicates that actual parenting is a dying art form.

Seriously FTC. I can think of many better ways to use the time and resources of this government agency. A) Work on ways to keep production of goods and services in the United States. B) Stop imports which are unsafe to use or ingest. C) Stop imports from companies which use child labor.

Why is it so difficult for the FTC to actually do what it is supposed to do, protect consumers? By suing Amazon you aren’t protecting consumers. You are allowing lazy people to continue being lazy. You are setting a terrible example. What is next? Making the cell phone carriers and manufactures pay for accidental 911 calls because some one’s child accidently calls 911? It is one thing if you pocket dial once or twice in your life time. It is another if it is because you give your child a phone to shut them up and then don’t pay attention to what is going on.

Frankly, I’m sure some people are going to say, “You don’t have children, you just don’t understand.” They would be correct. I don’t understand how you bring a miracle into this world and choose to ignore it. I don’t understand why the government is going out of its way to allow you to continue to being a lazy parent. Hell, the FTC is actually REWARDING you for being a bad parent.

Again, I say F**k you FTC, and F**K you lazy parents. You are the reason this has happened. Take some responsibility for your own actions. If you can’t, keep your legs closed, or you dick in your pants. We have enough dicks in the government and we know what they create.

I will not write a bad review. I will just blog about it.

After many years being brutally honest about restaurant & hotel experiences I vowed to never write another bad review because it came back ro me as terrible karma. My reviews were the truth and justified. From having food spilled on me so horribly that I had to go buy new clothes before a concert to waitng two hours for a pizza, mold in showers, peanuts on the floors of hotel rooms, among other wretched events. I was indeed justified.

I have had some amazing experiences tha I have also reviewed. I have called to speak with managers when I receive outstanding service. I still do. I'm not a negative nancy all the time. Honest.

That brings me to our trip to Lewiston.  I'm fighting the urge to talk to the manager, write a review and even contact corporate. I know that the karmic retribution will not be pretty.

The hotel we are staying at is a maze at best. The front desk clerk had no personality and was grouchy (we checked in on the earlier aide....830pm). It is non smoking,  but seriously?  I had a difficult time breathing when I walked throigh one of the 5 corridors it took to get to our room.

Our room... well there are used qtips under the sink,  the frige has a ring of something resembling koolaid on the inside door. The stopper for the sink does not work.  The floors are stained.  The iron shuts off & I had to unplug it & plug it back in to make it work.  Oh.... and the beds? ??? So small Ernie and I slept like old married people from 1950 in separate beds (there are things I enjoy aboutthat rime. Separate beds is NOT one of them).

We have of course stayed in worse rooms for more money And nicer,  cleaner rooms for less.

Let us fast forward to breakfast.  Breakfast is not included in our stay. That isn't an issue. I don't mind having to pay for breakfast in a nice hotel (which this really is not). Breakfast buffet is $5.99. Not a problem. That is cheap enough. We had been told that is was a great breakfast buffet, the person practically salivating at the thought.  We get to breakfast,  the space is nicely set up. They actually had table cloths & cloth napkins.  It was all a facade.

They had two juices... cranberry & orange. No apple. No tea. No milk. No ice water.  They did have coffee (which was so acidic it upset my stomach). They had two types if bread for toast. Cheap white & equally as cheap wheat. No English muffins. No bagels,  no cream cheese. Eggs were mediocre at best. Bacon was rubber. Home fries were cold. Sausage was cold & rubbery. I did not try the french toast. It looked like it may have been made the night before and reheated.  If it was anything like the muffins,  it could have bern DAYS past expiration.

We have stayed in a lot of hotels. Some more expensive & much less expensive.  A hotel we frequent in NH is less, with a full kitchen and a FREE breakfast with much better food.  Hell, we have stayed at a Comfort Inn with better continental breakfast.

I'm fighting to keep this morning's breakfast down.

I can say, I am really looking forward to this weekend being over!