School one with a strip of rooms and a separate office. We had been driving for hours in this stupid storm and saw the motel with a vacancy sign as an answer to our prayers. The door had an open sign but was locked, it was only about 6pm so I was surprised. I knocked, heard movement but no one answered. I knocked again and a clearly drunk guy opened it and yelled "what do you want?". I was so angry and defensive that I shouted back, "I'm at a motel with a vacancy sign in the snow, what the ---- do you think I want?".

He slammed the door, my wife started crying and I was about to knock again and she begged me not to. We drove about another hour before we found another place to stay