brown pants-ed myself .... nearly

The last week or so, I've been Hotel-hopping. Having been evicted from my apartment on two days notice, it was unsurprisingly a little bit difficult for me to find suitable accommodations on such short notice. 


// Start Back Story


The back story is that I "accidentally" signed a 6 month lease with Marriott Execustay. Unfortunately, my sensitive allergies were flaring up in the apartment and I was needing to get fully doped up on antihistamines to get through each day. 


Marriott had no problem with me leaving the apartment, but would keep me rent obligated if a new tenant could not be found. I was beginning to lose hope that i would be stuck for the remaining months in this apartment, however, on the 30th of March, I was duly informed that a new tenant had been found and that i had to GTFO by the 1st of April..... YAY!


Unfortunately, it is a little bit challenging to get an apartment on short notice, and i had to go through the proper channels to secure a new lease. This means waiting for strategic sourcing blah blah blah to do their thing. 


In the meantime, it meant i had to find a hotel to stay in. The only hotel which could accommodate me was none other than the W Hotel New York. FANCEE ... 


The hotel room was an absolute shoebox, but i got by for the week. On Sunday, my rate was going to go up significantly, so to be considerate, i changed hotels to the Element by Westin in Times Square West. I had my first glimpse of how it felt to live on the west side :)


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Anyway, I went skiing this weekend and I was pretty tired. It was the morning after my first night in the hotel... When I woke up, I went to the bathroom to put on my face for work. My bathroom has a full length mirror on the door and in my half awoken state, i reached out to push the door open. I was confronted by a dark image reaching out to me. I make no excuses, but I had no lights on and it was quite dark. To summarise ... here is a graphical re-enactment. 

I can honestly say, that my heart skipped a beat and concurrently, i brown pants-ed myself, perhaps just a teaspoon, but a change of underwear was nevertheless necessary. Please note that some embellishment has taken place ... the part about my heart skipping a beat that is ...