I remember there being a time in my life when it was cool to throw parties in hotel rooms.  The likely result of such a party is pretty much disasterous.  I must admit, while I did attended such parties while in high school, I have never contributed in the trashing of the hotel room…until recently when I accidentally flooded an entire hotel room in about 4 minutes.  Impossible you say?  Not for me!  I am the one and only walking, living, breathing "Murphy’s Law"!  If there is a way for something to go oddly and horribly wrong - I can make it happen!  Here is how the event unfolded…

 I was enjoying a peaceful evening at the Hilton Hotel in Osaka, Japan (lovely, by the way) and decided to run myself a nice, warm bath.  Impatient as I am, I decided to multi-task by using the time that it took for the bathtub to fill to return a quick e-mail to a friend regarding my travels.  In all my life, I have NEVER to this very day, seen a bathtub fill as fast as this one did!  Right when I was through sending the e-mail (which, by the way, was no more than 10 sentances!) I turned to get out from the desk only to notice a good inch of standing water covering 85% of my hotel room!  In a panic, I ran into the bathroom to turn off the faucet and stood there in complete awe of the absolute disaster I had created.  The water was not only spilling over the top of the tub, but it had created cracks in the bottom of the bathtub and was now seeping out in every different direction!  Once I grasped the situation at hand, I decided to call a co-worker, who was just staying down the hall from me, for help.  She told me to just put some towels down and not to worry.  Clearly she had NO CLUE the extent of my bathtub nightmare so I told her to just come down and take a quidk look at my room.  After a few short seconds, I opened the door and invited her into my wading pool/hotel room.  All she could do is gasp at the sight of my room drowning in bath water.  In fact, it was so bad that when I opened the door to let her into my room, I noticed that the hallway outside of my door was soaked with water also! 

So after deciding that it would be best to keep this little mishap to ourselves (come on!  I am an intern!  I clearly do not have enough money to replace carpeting!!), we ended up using anything that might possibly be able to soak up water.  Hand towels, bath, towels, bath robes…ANYTHING that we could find to get rid of the water!  Finally, after about thirty minutes of work and a bathtub full of soaking wet towels and robes, I decided that maybe tonight I would skip my bath and just play it safe and go to sleep.  Nothing bad can happen if I am sleeping, right?  I swear, if there is the slightest possiblity of something going hysterically wrong…I am your girl!  After all that time of having "best hotel behavior", I successfully trashed a hotel room 100% unintentionally and didn’t even have one shred of fun while doing it.  (I did get a few solid laughs out of it in the end though