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MOXOMUMD

MOXOMUMD

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StarWarsGirl95 said:
I feel like it's age discrimination quite honestly. 18 is an adult. There are 18 year olds more mature than 21 year olds. Adult is adult is adult. If an 18-year-old brings a guest who is not registered, hotel kicks them out. Very simple. And what really irked me was that I couldn't get my own room there...but if I stayed with my parents there was an extra adult fee. :bored:
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The first time I got a room on my own I was 18 but I had my own credit card. We were visiting relatives and there wasn't room in their house.
 
MOXOMUMD

MOXOMUMD

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figmentfan423 said:
Good morning! I hope all of you are having a warmer morning than I am with the exception of @MinnieM123. It's 10 degrees outside:mad: and I'd :cry: but my tears would freeze. Tonight's dinner groundhog a l'orange. Tomorrow it's supposed to get up near 60, we'll see and I'll believe it when I feel it
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So much groundhog lately. :depressed: I'm ready for dandelions and green leaves on the trees.
 
MOXOMUMD

MOXOMUMD

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Songbird76 said:
Is there a campus that IS known for its food? In a good way, I mean? I stopped eating pork at our university because it smelled like livestock and tasted horrible and I ended up getting sick several times after eating pork there. I ordered a LOT of pizza. We had a pizza place in town that had $5 deals for a large pizza and a 2 liter bottle of coke. They did a booming business in the campus housing!
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Our university is pretty decent. They have some campus run kiosks that serve usual quick service foods but they also have Einstein Bros., Subway, Quaker Steak & Lube ( :hungry: my fav), Veggie-A-GoGo, Starbucks and Five Bros. I wish all that was there when I went! :(
 
MouseDreaming

MouseDreaming

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Good morning all! The sun is out, and though it is windy, the temps feel like April. supposed to hit close to 60 today! Unfortunately, the ants are loving it, too. I woke up to them in my kitchen and dining room.:mad: Anyone have a tried and true way to get rid of them? I can't really put traps around, because my little furry doggy friend may try to eat them. Thanks!
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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MOXOMUMD said:
Our university is pretty decent. They have some campus run kiosks that serve usual quick service foods but they also have Einstein Bros., Subway, Quaker Steak & Lube ( :hungry: my fav), Veggie-A-GoGo, Starbucks and Five Bros. I wish all that was there when I went! :(
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Wow...we didn't have any of that kind of stuff. We only had the one main cafeteria for those who lived in the dorms and then there was a place in the union, but I was a music major and our building was on the opposite side of the campus to everything else. Most buildings were in a circle around a large courtyard and the Union building was kind of the entrance to them from the dorm side. The Fine Arts building was on the other end of the dorms...you went one way to get to the Fine Arts building and the other way to get to everything else. It made getting to classes outside of the Fine Arts building a pain as it's pretty isolated, but most music majors pretty much lived in the FA. I usually managed 1 class outside of FA per semester. We DID have a great coffee kiosk with fantastic freshly made bagels every day and we had a vending machine that sold hot chocolate (I don't drink coffee). When I moved off campus my Senior year, I went and got a cranberry bagel and a hot chocolate most mornings in our break from practicum class. Oh, and when I was living in the dorms, we had the Pokeskeller in the basement of the main residence office building...it was like a small convenience store with a counter where you could order fries, tatertots (with nacho cheese...that was my favorite), and milkshakes. Not very quality stuff, but better than eating the pork upstairs in the cafeteria!
 
Figgy1

Figgy1

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MouseDreaming said:
Good morning all! The sun is out, and though it is windy, the temps feel like April. supposed to hit close to 60 today! Unfortunately, the ants are loving it, too. I woke up to them in my kitchen and dining room.:mad: Anyone have a tried and true way to get rid of them? I can't really put traps around, because my little furry doggy friend may try to eat them. Thanks!
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Lots of vaccuming and wash all your hard surfaces with vinegar. That seems to work for me.
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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MouseDreaming said:
Good morning all! The sun is out, and though it is windy, the temps feel like April. supposed to hit close to 60 today! Unfortunately, the ants are loving it, too. I woke up to them in my kitchen and dining room.:mad: Anyone have a tried and true way to get rid of them? I can't really put traps around, because my little furry doggy friend may try to eat them. Thanks!
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I just vacuum them up...there are usually BUNCHES of them at one time, all traveling in a line, so I get out the vacuum and hoover them all up and then 15 minutes later, there are more, and I hoover those up, and so on. I've been told they won't cross chalk, so if you find out where they are coming in, you put chalk in front of their entrance. I don't know where they come in in my house, and I don't have a pet, so I do use traps, too. Google it, maybe? There have to be non-toxic traps or ways to get rid of them!
 
StarWarsGirl

StarWarsGirl

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Songbird76 said:
Well, think back to high school..and to most of the people you went to school with. I don't know you or what your high school was like, but while you seem to be mature, I know that most of the kids I went to high school with were complete IDIOTS at 18. Of course, some of them still are at nearly 40, but they'd at least have the sense not to, for example, light their farts on fire in the hotel room. I personally think that if a person is old enough to risk their life in the military, they should be considered a full fledged adult with all the privilege and responsibility that entails, but I can understand certain businesses being wary of certain age groups. Most teenagers are not known for their maturity, and having no way of knowing that you are one of the few who are, they have to stick to policy.
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I can honestly say that based on where I went to high school, the ones causing major problems are the minority. And it's also not like flipping a switch for the 21 year olds anyway.

I jut want them to make up their minds. Either allow 18 year olds to stay there...or don't charge the extra adult fee until they're 21.
 
Figgy1

Figgy1

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StarWarsGirl95 said:
I can honestly say that based on where I went to high school, the ones causing major problems are the minority. And it's also not like flipping a switch for the 21 year olds anyway.

I jut want them to make up their minds. Either allow 18 year olds to stay there...or don't charge the extra adult fee until they're 21.
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^^^^This
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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StarWarsGirl95 said:
I can honestly say that based on where I went to high school, the ones causing major problems are the minority. And it's also not like flipping a switch for the 21 year olds anyway.

I jut want them to make up their minds. Either allow 18 year olds to stay there...or don't charge the extra adult fee until they're 21.
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If your parents were to reserve the room, would they charge you the extra adult price because you are over 18?
Where I went to school, I was definitely in the minority, being a responsible mature adult at 18. I wouldn't have trusted most of the kids in my class in a hotel without supervision, but maybe that's just where I went to high school. I think that's pretty fair.....to expect that they either don't charge the adult fee or they treat you like an adult. Did you ask to speak to a manager and explain or have one of your parents talk to them? Sometimes, they might make an exception if a parent would vouch for you or you explain the situation and it's not just random teens. Kind of ridiculous since at 18 you can vote, you are emancipated, you can get married, and you can serve your country...they SHOULD consider you an adult. I can see both sides, but I wonder if they would make an exception if you talked to them personally.
 
StarWarsGirl

StarWarsGirl

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In the Parks
No
Songbird76 said:
When I was just starting college, a coworker from my summer job came and stayed with me in my dorm room for a few nights because she was doing some first aid/life saving courses in town and she had booked a hotel room and when she got there, they wouldn't let her stay because she was only 19 and you had to be 21. She called me begging for a floor to crash on so she didn't have to sleep in her car. I think it's pretty standard in most places because she went to several motels and they all told her the same thing. I'm surprised that Disney allows that...I wonder what their age limit is.
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Are you sure it wasn't a state law type of thing? Because Disney allows it as long as you're 18, and I know most of the hotels in Ocean City allow anyone over 18 to stay there, so I would think there would normally be at least one hotel that wouldn't have that policy.
 
MOXOMUMD

MOXOMUMD

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MouseDreaming said:
Good morning all! The sun is out, and though it is windy, the temps feel like April. supposed to hit close to 60 today! Unfortunately, the ants are loving it, too. I woke up to them in my kitchen and dining room.:mad: Anyone have a tried and true way to get rid of them? I can't really put traps around, because my little furry doggy friend may try to eat them. Thanks!
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Put table salt where you think they are coming in. It dries their bodies up and when they carry it back to their home, it'll dry up too.
 
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