I forgot to mention this, but I'm taking a well-earned siesta this week on the Oregon coast. A week to recharge my batteries, do some sight-seeing and walk the beaches.

Well as I was checking into my hotel on Sunday, the night desk person went through the usual things you can't do in your hotel room, and then finished it off with, "Oh yes, and no ORANGUTANS or GORILLAS."

O.o

Okay, wait a minute. I can see about the usual assortment of things like, no pets and no smoking. But when did monkeys and apes suddenly make the list?

I decided not to ask until the following morning when my curiosity finally got the better of me. The morning desk person said that nothing like that had ever happened at this particular hotel. However... there was a former bar down the street whose owner had an orangutan living at the bar. Well the owner got sent to prison for various and sundry things, and everyone conveniently forgot that he owned an orangutan... until the day it broke out of the bar and went down the street to a different hotel. Whereupon, it proceeded to... for lack of a better word... go apeshit in one or more of the rooms before animal control tranquilized it.

Not quite as good as the orangutan going apeshit in my hotel, but a better story than I normally get when I check in. Would've been fun to call in that 911emergency.