Life in a hotel room

Most people do not choose to live their lives in hotel rooms, it just happens. Tunnel Rd. in Asheville NC is a prime example. I ended up unable to walk and living in a hotel room until I could no longer afford the $65 a day to stay there. I gave the owner my guitar to allow me to sit there for a few hours until a friend of mine found us another location. We moved into a place at $35 a night that was next door. We stayed there for about a month but not having a car and not having proper employment leads you to daily labor where you flag traffic all day or dig ditches and you still don't make that $35 you need. Therefore you end up in a life of crime and doing all nature of things just to keep your shitty little room on Tunnel Rd. at one of the nasty dive hotels. We were not the only people living like this. There were probably 100 people in the same rut. The luckiest of us had a full time job at Waffle House and made sure that the rest of us were able to at least have a bite to eat everyday. She waited tables all day while her boyfriend hustled his ass off all day and both of them cleaned rooms in exchange of partial rent for the hotel room they lived in. This hotel room cost them the same amount of money that one of the nice rooms cost but the owner insisted on placing them in the cruddiest rooms on the back side of the building where all of his housekeepers and homeless folks made homes. Every morning you wake up to the fact that your things will be waiting for you by the dumpster out back when you get off work. Then if you were lucky enough to get that $35-$70 at daily labor then hopefully the hotel owner will give you a room for the night so you can lay your head down and do it all over again the next day. I guess I'll have $5 left after paying my daily rent so let's buy a couple of 40 ouncers and call it a day. Maybe some drug addicts will come visit you and turn you on in exchange for using your hotel room. That was as good as it got. People don't plan on this situation becoming a part of their life but it happens. If you live in Asheville just take note next time you see people walking up and down Tunnel Rd. They are not tourists. They are homeless.