Take any old, beat up, run down, wore out motel hotel, the kind with the cinder block construction and enought layers of paint to make a skin thick enough to
cover most any little bump and goughes. There are spots with chips that revel at least 4 colors thick, and some places there is graffitti enough to make a
novel. The funny thing, the hallway never seems to end but one place; the office. From there looking with your back to the wall (and is there just a faint hint
of outline of a door?) and the office to your right, the hall seems to go on forever. Some say that is simply a mirror and the trick of light, which incidental
isn't a lot. And it isn't exactly spotless on the floor either. Cigarette butts, old beer and soda cans, and bits of detritus that one probably really
doesn't want to know about.
As you look down the hall there is door after door after door. Many have the paint peeling off them like a bad suntan. Others are 'wooden' or 'Security gray metal'. Some have screen doors in front of them, others have a deep recesse in the wall, like the old medevial dungeon doors. It looks like there is no two doors alike. Some have obvious signs, other nothing to give a hint about what lays behind.
But one thing is clear, this is a no mans, or womans land, and any door that your not welcome behind, will not open. Try as you might, there is nothing in the universe that will cause the door to open, save one thing; you paid your bill and have the key.
As you look down the hall there is door after door after door. Many have the paint peeling off them like a bad suntan. Others are 'wooden' or 'Security gray metal'. Some have screen doors in front of them, others have a deep recesse in the wall, like the old medevial dungeon doors. It looks like there is no two doors alike. Some have obvious signs, other nothing to give a hint about what lays behind.
But one thing is clear, this is a no mans, or womans land, and any door that your not welcome behind, will not open. Try as you might, there is nothing in the universe that will cause the door to open, save one thing; you paid your bill and have the key.
