Finally, a long-term dad storage solution
April 20, 2018 12:11 PM Subscribe
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My dad is basically a truffle pig for rundown old motels on road trips,* so this really speaks my childhood spent in awful Days Inns.
*Or was, he ascended in dadliness and now he sleeps either in an RV or the camper van he uses to haul the RV. He likes to park the van in the parking lots of Wal-Marts so he can leave at 2 am and beat traffic.
posted by Bulgaroktonos at 12:16 PM on April 20, 2018 [27 favorites]
*Or was, he ascended in dadliness and now he sleeps either in an RV or the camper van he uses to haul the RV. He likes to park the van in the parking lots of Wal-Marts so he can leave at 2 am and beat traffic.
posted by Bulgaroktonos at 12:16 PM on April 20, 2018 [27 favorites]
feels like there could be just an eensy teensy bit more gatekeeping of submissions going on that there website
posted by runt at 12:19 PM on April 20, 2018 [9 favorites]
posted by runt at 12:19 PM on April 20, 2018 [9 favorites]
I'm not sure I get the point of this.
posted by JanetLand at 12:23 PM on April 20, 2018 [12 favorites]
posted by JanetLand at 12:23 PM on April 20, 2018 [12 favorites]
I'm not sure I get the point of this.
Me neither. My bigger concern is that my kids see this and see it as a solution to chores and bed time.
posted by dfm500 at 12:25 PM on April 20, 2018
Me neither. My bigger concern is that my kids see this and see it as a solution to chores and bed time.
posted by dfm500 at 12:25 PM on April 20, 2018
Gather 'round, confused children.
So there was a Days Inn hotel along I-96 on the south side of Lansing, Michigan. It got sold, and the buyer did not acquire the franchise rights or whatever you call it, so he (or she, but... let's just assume "he" here) had a perfectly good hotel but could not call it a "Days Inn".
So he did pretty near the least amount of work possible, rechristened it "Dads Inn", paying the absolute deadass minimum for a badly matched Y that was bolted right over the second D. See that cheesy graphic at the top of the dads-inn.com website? That's what it looked like. And you could see it from the highway, and it was a source of much hilarity on Michigan road trips.
The Dads Inn closed a couplefew years back, and the sign has been completely removed. But there's a whole generation of kids who remember the DAYDS INN of Lansing.
posted by Etrigan at 12:31 PM on April 20, 2018 [50 favorites]
So there was a Days Inn hotel along I-96 on the south side of Lansing, Michigan. It got sold, and the buyer did not acquire the franchise rights or whatever you call it, so he (or she, but... let's just assume "he" here) had a perfectly good hotel but could not call it a "Days Inn".
So he did pretty near the least amount of work possible, rechristened it "Dads Inn", paying the absolute deadass minimum for a badly matched Y that was bolted right over the second D. See that cheesy graphic at the top of the dads-inn.com website? That's what it looked like. And you could see it from the highway, and it was a source of much hilarity on Michigan road trips.
The Dads Inn closed a couplefew years back, and the sign has been completely removed. But there's a whole generation of kids who remember the DA
posted by Etrigan at 12:31 PM on April 20, 2018 [50 favorites]
I'm not sure I get the point of this.
I was assuming it was a hidden commentary on dads as being someone who you want to store away in a hotel while you go on your vacation because they are, in mine and a lot of folks' experiences, emotionally immature children who feel the need to exert some form of their masculinity in this just exhausting, idiotic way no matter how you try to keep them from doing so, sort of like The Toast's Dad Magazines. instead, the submissions are by like seemingly actual dads exhibiting abovementioned behaviors
on that post-preview edit, nvm lol
posted by runt at 12:31 PM on April 20, 2018 [4 favorites]
I was assuming it was a hidden commentary on dads as being someone who you want to store away in a hotel while you go on your vacation because they are, in mine and a lot of folks' experiences, emotionally immature children who feel the need to exert some form of their masculinity in this just exhausting, idiotic way no matter how you try to keep them from doing so, sort of like The Toast's Dad Magazines. instead, the submissions are by like seemingly actual dads exhibiting abovementioned behaviors
on that post-preview edit, nvm lol
posted by runt at 12:31 PM on April 20, 2018 [4 favorites]
> So there was a Days Inn hotel along I-96
What she/he said! In fact, I'm thinking it may have made a resurgence recently?!
posted by saintjoe at 12:32 PM on April 20, 2018
What she/he said! In fact, I'm thinking it may have made a resurgence recently?!
posted by saintjoe at 12:32 PM on April 20, 2018
Haha, love this. Posted it at work in our team channel of forty-something dads and it went over like a deadlead balloon. They called it dad porn. I am fighting the urge to check in some new dads.
ETA: N.B. I am a forty-something dad.
posted by riverlife at 1:10 PM on April 20, 2018
ETA: N.B. I am a forty-something dad.
posted by riverlife at 1:10 PM on April 20, 2018
feels like there could be just an eensy teensy bit more gatekeeping of submissions going on that there website
Nah, it's PureMichigan™.
posted by elsietheeel at 1:12 PM on April 20, 2018 [4 favorites]
Nah, it's PureMichigan™.
posted by elsietheeel at 1:12 PM on April 20, 2018 [4 favorites]
Yeah without actual curation I'm far off the point of this. Possibly to my demerit.
posted by ominous_paws at 1:13 PM on April 20, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by ominous_paws at 1:13 PM on April 20, 2018 [1 favorite]
Did enjoy how the "check in notes" field in the results is titled far more brutally "reason" on the form
posted by ominous_paws at 1:15 PM on April 20, 2018
posted by ominous_paws at 1:15 PM on April 20, 2018
Etrigan, thanks for explaining. My partner works in Delta Township (which is to say, on the southwest side of Lansing, just south of I-96), and he and his co-workers have a whole series of running jokes about the DADS INN.
The site could use some context, though. The picture doesn't even show it during the DADS INN days--it still says DAYS INN. So this is a weird inside joke for most people.
posted by Orlop at 1:19 PM on April 20, 2018 [1 favorite]
The site could use some context, though. The picture doesn't even show it during the DADS INN days--it still says DAYS INN. So this is a weird inside joke for most people.
posted by Orlop at 1:19 PM on April 20, 2018 [1 favorite]
Also, I think this is a questionable assertion: "...had a perfectly good hotel...". It was pretty disreputable even before it became the DADS.
posted by Orlop at 1:20 PM on April 20, 2018
posted by Orlop at 1:20 PM on April 20, 2018
Near Petersburg,Virginia there is (used to be?) a hotel called the ARMADA INN that, as I'm sure you guessed, used to be a RAMADA INN. They were even cheaper than the Dad's Inn, as they could just switch the letters.
posted by 4ster at 1:25 PM on April 20, 2018 [11 favorites]
posted by 4ster at 1:25 PM on April 20, 2018 [11 favorites]
Double haha, oh wow! 7 hours of sleep over the past 60+ (workwork) have given me a strange apportionment of attention--the guys' reaction made me take a second look and oh my! Yeah. The meta-idea was great but the execution, ooch! The meta joke on myself, of life, that larger cosmic universal Truth almost seen. The tragicomic nature and viscera of it all.
posted by riverlife at 1:57 PM on April 20, 2018
posted by riverlife at 1:57 PM on April 20, 2018
In my hometown of Omaha, there was a fairly large Clarion Hotel that, similar to the story above, somehow lost the right to use the Clarion name. I'm not clear on whether this was a matter of the new ownership being unwilling to pay some sort of licensing fee, or the property had fallen below the standards required of a franchisee, or both, but the owners decided to solve the problem by switching a few letters around on the rooftop sign, creating the "Clarino Hotel".
Eventually they must've been threatened with some form of legal action, because now it's the (much more visually distinct from "Clarion") "Carol Hotel".
posted by Ipsifendus at 2:04 PM on April 20, 2018
Eventually they must've been threatened with some form of legal action, because now it's the (much more visually distinct from "Clarion") "Carol Hotel".
posted by Ipsifendus at 2:04 PM on April 20, 2018
He likes to park the van in the parking lots of Wal-Marts so he can leave at 2 am and beat traffic.
Beating traffic is the gateway behavior to full-blown dad dependency. I remember from my own youth the late-night packing, the wailing cries, the bickering, the instability of sleeping and waking up to sunset through minivan windows, all in the name of "beating traffic." We must break the cycle before it's too la—a sale on jorts? Those are handy, I should pick some up—WHAT HAVE I BECOME
posted by infinitewindow at 2:05 PM on April 20, 2018 [11 favorites]
Beating traffic is the gateway behavior to full-blown dad dependency. I remember from my own youth the late-night packing, the wailing cries, the bickering, the instability of sleeping and waking up to sunset through minivan windows, all in the name of "beating traffic." We must break the cycle before it's too la—a sale on jorts? Those are handy, I should pick some up—WHAT HAVE I BECOME
posted by infinitewindow at 2:05 PM on April 20, 2018 [11 favorites]
Daily meals!
posted by BitterOldPunk at 2:30 PM on April 20, 2018
posted by BitterOldPunk at 2:30 PM on April 20, 2018
Ipsifendus, apparently they tore down the Carol hotel in 2016. I wish I had been able to zip past it now that I know the story!
posted by PussKillian at 2:38 PM on April 20, 2018
posted by PussKillian at 2:38 PM on April 20, 2018
So there was a Days Inn hotel along I-96
Photo taken in 2010. The truth is out there.
posted by belarius at 3:06 PM on April 20, 2018 [8 favorites]
Photo taken in 2010. The truth is out there.
posted by belarius at 3:06 PM on April 20, 2018 [8 favorites]
I don't have any pictures of my Dad, but he had a startling resemblance to Jack Nicholson, so I assume whatever I uploaded to the site would come out looking like something from the Overlook Hotel.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 3:08 PM on April 20, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by The Underpants Monster at 3:08 PM on April 20, 2018 [1 favorite]
Sounds like a plus!
posted by wenestvedt at 3:31 PM on April 20, 2018
posted by wenestvedt at 3:31 PM on April 20, 2018
I am delighted there was an explanation--At age 76 I was concerned I would have to flag this and report it as microaggression and ageism. BTW--Not a hotel at which I am likely to stay
posted by rmhsinc at 3:46 PM on April 20, 2018
posted by rmhsinc at 3:46 PM on April 20, 2018
I have been checked in by my son for making him take a bath
(Also I lived in the Lansing area for years so this is doubly funny to me)
posted by caution live frogs at 4:19 PM on April 20, 2018
(Also I lived in the Lansing area for years so this is doubly funny to me)
posted by caution live frogs at 4:19 PM on April 20, 2018
I love this. It's like a visual representation of a SomethingAwful thread.
posted by fluttering hellfire at 6:30 PM on April 20, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by fluttering hellfire at 6:30 PM on April 20, 2018 [1 favorite]
Honestly I interpreted it as a home for all those sad dads in fiction out there who just need a Break. I put in Hawkeye.
posted by brook horse at 8:03 PM on April 20, 2018 [2 favorites]
posted by brook horse at 8:03 PM on April 20, 2018 [2 favorites]
MetaFilter: I'm not sure I get the point of this.
posted by kirkaracha at 3:14 PM on April 21, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by kirkaracha at 3:14 PM on April 21, 2018 [1 favorite]
On a related note, we used to have a restaurant called Murder Burger and for the same reasons as everyone else, were forced to change it. They went with "Redrum Burger."
posted by jenfullmoon at 7:27 AM on April 22, 2018
posted by jenfullmoon at 7:27 AM on April 22, 2018
And the burgers never tasted the same after. Also the In-n-Out across the street didn't help.
posted by elsietheeel at 8:47 AM on April 22, 2018 [2 favorites]
posted by elsietheeel at 8:47 AM on April 22, 2018 [2 favorites]
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