With an early appointment a two hour drive from home, Candy said we should get a room for the night since she doesn't do mornings.
Looked at Google maps for anything close by and one was a well known national chain (starts with an M). Called the number. A person answered and listened to my request. She said she was a desk clerk and to please hold while she transferred me to reservations. This sent me through voice prompt after voice prompt. The system wanted to send me a text, I don't have a cell phone. How do you get through to a robovoice? It kept asking me for my membership number, I'm not a member. After fighting with the automated system for 4 or 5 minutes, I had enough and hung up. Called another national chain in the area and got a room booked in about the same time talking to a woman with what sounded like an Eastern European accent.
I don't think I have ever met someone who likes being jerked around a phone answering menu system that gets stuck in an endless loop of trying to sell you a membership or listen to their pitch over and over. Maybe it would have been faster if I signed up for a membership I didn't want.
Haven't any of these corporate bean counters discovered many folks would rather talk to another human instead of trying to figure out how to talk to a machine?
End of Rant.
jtk