Holiday Inns gone wild!

How many Holiday Inn’s could there possibly be in Frederick, MD? Well I know of at least 2 that are about 2 miles apart. Yeah, found that out the hard way. So I pull up the Hotel I am staying at and it doesn’t list an address only an intersection. Now, of course pulling it up in GPS is like searching the yellow pages for a John Smith. I mean there are only a million and a half Holiday Inns in the MD. So I put in the town and figured when I got here I could search for the Holiday Inn once I got here. So I arrived in the pouring rain, pulled my car to the side of the road, throw on my hazards and began the GPS search for Holiday Inns close by near that intersection. Wala! I found it with out any problems so I get to this intersection and I see the sign for the Holiday Inn on the right with a sign posted to take a right. So what did I do…. Followed the sign…Until as I am making the turn, I notice the Holiday Inn on my left that was hidden by a patch of trees. I make the right and bust a U-Turn cursing all the while as to why they would put a sign on the right when the damn hotel was on the left. As I approach the stop light I start to justify the stupidity in it. Maybe you can’t make a left turn at the light and you have to make the U-turn to get to this place… Who knows but by this point I had a headache and was already frustrated and the rain was picking up. Once I make it there I thought I was in the free and clear… Nope… As soon as I pull into the parking spot convienetly located at the back of the lot, It starts a sudden down pour. Could this get any better? Of course it could… So I wait patiently in the car till the rain stops but it doesn’t and I have to go to the bathroom so I brave the storm and haul my luggage all the way to the door. WOW! Soaking wet I stood there while the girl searched for my reservation… Ooops she says… That didn’t sound reassuring. She then proceeds to tell me my reservation is not for that Holiday Inn and this is a common mistake. What, really? She tells me that my reservation is for the Holiday Inn about 2 miles away. She says I should have turned right instead of left… Well chikadee I did turn right… Then I saw this place that said Holiday Inn… Who would have thought? So I hauled my luggage back out into the pouring rain and headed towards the other hotel. Of course by the time I got there it had completely stopped raining! When did Holiday Inns become like McDonalds that there is one on every freaking corner?