Hotel crimes

High school can be a boring time, so in addition to stealing records from the major's dumpsters, we would find other crimes to commit.

It all started from a desire to sit in the hot tub for free. Me and some of my friends would go to hotels around town and just do stuff. Sit in the hot tub until we got kicked out, flip the do not disturb signs over to make up room early, stealing anything that wasn't nailed down. I still have one of the large silver top sugar thingies from some hotel. Salt and pepper shakers, cloth napkins, you name it as long as it wasn't ours and was not freely given. On some level the real goal was to get chased. Few things were as thrilling as being on the run from some hotel stiff. In some of the nicer places you had to be a real prick to get any attention. I distinctly remember throwing toilet paper rolls out the window of the Melrose on new year's eve. It was like being a rock star without the rock, or stardom.

'hello'
'whatcha doin?
'nuthin'
'hotel crimes?
'sure'
'be there in five minutes'
'cool'

I'm pretty sure I'm still banned from the Holiday Inn in Plano, after a graduation party where I did some freelance work involving furniture and the pool area.