Batfamily ( Bros trip )

Night at the motel

I tried to make myself comfortable, but , with all the stuff piled around me, it was impossible.

I really needed to get out of the car to prevent my legs from permanently cramping.

Damian was still asleep, but he had somehow turned himself all the way upside down in his seat.

When Dick noticed, he told us that maybe we should stop driving for the day, so he pulled off at the next exit.

I was really looking forward to eating a meal at a decent restaurant, but Dick said we're on a budget and tonight we were gonna pick up our dinner at a grocery store.

He found a supermarket a few miles from the exit. But he was afraid that if the car stopped moving Damian would wake up and have a fit. So he quickly write out a shopping list for Jason and gave him some money, then he drove real slow in front of the entrance so Jason could hop out.

Dick had to circle the parking lot about ten times. Eventually, Jason came out with a couple of bags of groceries. And, from the looks of it, he picked up some extra items for himself.

When Dick pulled the van round, Jason hopped in. Then we started looking for a place to stay for the night, but the selection in the area wasn't that great.

A few of the motels had big signs that said they had " Colour TV ", which if you ask me is not anything to brag about in this day and age.

Dick finally pulled over at a place with air-conditioning and a pool, which sounded pretty good to ne, especially considering that I'd lost about five pounds in sweat sitting in the back seat.

I haven't stayed in a whole lot of motels, but, if I had to guess, I'd say we picked one on the lower end of the spectrum.

The lobby smelled like mildew, and the carpet was covered in weird stains.

But everyone was too tired to get back in the car and look for another place to stay.

We got the key to our room, and when we walked in it reeked of smoke. There were little holes in the covers and pillows that I'm pretty sure were cigarette burns.

I picked a towel up off the floor, then dropped it because it was WET.

Dick went back to the front desk and asked for a different room, but the clerk said the motel was full and that we'd got the last one.

Dick told her in that case we were gonna leave and take our business to another motel. But the clerk told him there was a twenty-four-hour cancellation policy, so we couldn't get our money back.

When Dick returned to the room, he said we were gonna have to try make the best of a bad situation. Then me and Dick stripped the bed down to the bare mattress.

Believe it or not, Damian slept through ALL of this. Dick said that if he woke up now he'd be awake all night, so we were just gonna let him sleep through till morning.

Dick put Damian down in the middle of the sofa bed and pulled a blanket over him.

The three of us were really hungry, so we emptied out the groceries Jason bought. But it turned out he didn't buy ANYTHING on Dick's list.

Jason was supposed to get sandwich supplies, orange juice and stuff like that, but he just got a bunch of things HE likes.

Dick was pretty mad that Jason didn't get a single thing on the list he gave him, but his excuse was that he couldn't read his handwriting. I told Jason it wasn't very smart to get cinnamon rolls and frozen pizza, since those things needed an oven and we didn't HAVE one.

But Jason said we could MICROWAVE the pizza. Then he put it inside the microwave oven to prove us wrong.

At least, Jason THOUGHT it was a microwave. It was actually a SAFE. By the time he found out, the pizza was locked inside.

Dick gave me what was left of his cash and said to go down to the vending machine to get the most nutritious stuff I could find.

And that's how we ended up eating suger wafers and breath mints for dinner on the first night of bros trip.