Motels don't take cash these days just for that reason. They want to be able to ping your credit card for a 'cleanup fee' - which can easily run into the few hundred dollar range. That and they want to nail you for smoking in your non-smoking room. Many hotels are completely non-smoking these days.
Its state law here that hotels are non smoking. Sucks. I remember last time I went to Florida and the hotel wanted to charge me a thousand some dollars for the phone calls the crazy woman I went there with made to my cell phone while I was off away from her and the room. I never answered a single one of those calls and they wanted to charge me long distance rates for each and every call. Adding up to more than the room was for a week! I told them I was not going to pay them and I showed the manager of the place on my phone that I did not answer a single one of those calls and they let it slide. LoL
They take the fun out of everything.
Though, I can understand the not-smoking thing. 2nd hand smoke is legitimately bad for you, with mountains of evidence to support it.
For a while, we had smoke shops in Maine that we could smoke in - but then some non-smoker decided to get a job there, raise a row, and get that ruined for us. Fuckers....
I have looked into some of the second hand smoke they did and it was smoke just from the end of lit cigarettes, not smoke that was inhaled and exhaled that they studies, so I immediately discounted it LoL
I remember we used to be able to walk around in Kmart smoking, they had ashtrays at the if aisles
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