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Clock radios in motel rooms?

vchimpanzee said:
The ceiling fan was bothering me and it wouldn't turn off. No, the front desk. Which forwarded me to whoever was taking messages.
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Wait, your emergency was a ceiling fan? Emergency Chimp?
vchimpanzee said:
Myrtle Beach. It was a nice looking motel in my opinion. The guy who was nice enough to cross the street figriued out how to unplug it.
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Seems to me that having to consult with a competitive motor inn across the street, isn't exactly what I'd call a nice motel where you stayed.
That, and there is no such thing as a nice motel. Only ones less gross than other's.
 
Kelly A said:
Wait, your emergency was a ceiling fan? Emergency Chimp?

Seems to me that having to consult with a competitive motor inn across the street, isn't exactly what I'd call a nice motel where you stayed.
That, and there is no such thing as a nice motel. Only ones less gross than other's.
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Hey, when you have a fan emergency, it really blows! Chimp is lucky they didn't tell him to sit and spin!
 
Does anyone actually still have a clock radio in their own home? I have the same long since discontinued Pure Siesta that I've had for 15+ years, but I don't use it for the alarm clock - I just use my phone for that.

The only reason I use the thing is to listen to Smooth Chill, an automated chill-out format station, on "sleep timer" mode while going to sleep. It doesn't have the functionality to wake you up with a different station to the one you went to sleep with, and I don't want to wake up to a station playing 24/7 ambient swooshy chill-out massage music, so it doesn't get used as an alarm.
 
I haven't used a clock radio since about 1999, so 24 years ago. I used it up until then, but I moved, didn't bother unpacking it as I had a smaller alarm clock I that used to wake me, and shortly afterward I got a cell phone which has been my wake up alarm ever since.
 
I have the greatest clock radio in my bedroom, it is called an Alexa device.

No longer do I roll over and have the bright red glow of that big numbered alarm clock in my face, I can keep my eyes closed and go "Alexa what time is it" and it tells me.

I can set multiple alarms too.....

After I turn the TV off I can listen to SXM on it, or anything from Amazon Music

and in the morning it is "Alexa play WBZ news radio one thousand thirty" so I can hear the traffic and weather for the morning commute you poor SOB's in MA are dealing with as the sun rises over my palm trees here in sunny SW Florida
 
MRBIboredop said:
and in the morning it is "Alexa play WBZ news radio one thousand thirty"
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One thousand thirty, ugh. What happens if you ask it to play "WBZ news radio ten thirty," which is the way most people would give the frequency? Does a simple "Play WBZ news radio" work? I assume "Play WBZ" might get you the Sports Hub or even Channel 4 audio.
 
ahhh Hotel stories....

During my Kollege years I was a desk clerk at the local Worst Western

It was a fun job

I met Tiny Tim at about 2:00 AM because he locked himself out of his bathroom.

Nice guy too.

A couple of years ago we were making the trip back north, me, Mrs BoredOp, and 2 very large protective dogs.

Nice hotel in the Carolina's.... we have to stay at dog friendly places and they are usually nice....

Drunken lady starts banging on the door, let me in you SOB, the dogs are going ballistic, I tell her she has the wrong room .... and she ain't buying it

She is manipulating to door handle, I warn her if she manages to get the door open it would be the last thing she ever did.

After a few minutes I had enough, I opened the door, the dogs had her across the hallway and down on the floor, and when she looked up at me she sobered up very fast, because she was looking at the wrong end of one of Gaston Glock's finer offerings.

Turns out her room was 3 doors up.

She ended up leaving at the request of the management.... but I suspect she and her husband were already packing when they were told they were no longer welcome.

The Desk Clerk was pretty cool about it, telling me he had no problem with my resolution to the problem


Next time: there are 400 rooms in this hotel and we are the only ones in the place....
 
CTListener said:
One thousand thirty, ugh. What happens if you ask it to play "WBZ news radio ten thirty," which is the way most people would give the frequency? Does a simple "Play WBZ news radio" work? I assume "Play WBZ" might get you the Sports Hub or even Channel 4 audio.
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believe it or not that is how Alexa reads it back when you ask for WBZ AM, so I just got in the habit of asking for it that way.

"WBZ News Radio One Thousand Thirty from J's IHrt radio"

when I ask for Sirius XM Channel 73, it replies "60's Gold from J's Sirius XM"
 
Miss Tuned said:
Does anyone actually still have a clock radio in their own home?
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I love modern tech and I have Sonos speakers with Alexa all over the house including the bedroom. But my wife and I also have a pair of 16-year old Boston Recepter HD clock radios that still sound fantastic waking us in the morning (at different times) to WCBS News Radio on 101.1-HD2.

I realize how eccentric this sounds. If it weren't for having such a good morning news radio station in our market, or the fact that we can hear it on this rare device that allows waking to an HD subchannel instead of AM, we would almost certainly be using the smart speakers as our morning alarm. To me, it's just a piece of offbeat tech that works for our particular situation. I certainly don't consider it representative of typical radio usage.
 
Kelly A said:
Seems to me that having to consult with a competitive motor inn across the street, isn't exactly what I'd call a nice motel where you stayed.
That, and there is no such thing as a nice motel. Only ones less gross than other's.
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It was quite nice for someone on a budget. But what I didn't find out at the time was they would have called me right back.
 
Miss Tuned said:
Does anyone actually still have a clock radio in their own home? I
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Still have an old Radio Shack Realistic brand clock radio. Don’t use alarm function but still use clock and often fall asleep and wake up to our all news radio station (KYW). Still miss the news ticker sound, think it was incredibly relaxing
 
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