on bidness, through Sunday. within walking distance of your hotel are several retail shops and chain restaurants with bars open as late as eleven. snow is falling. you have a girlfriend back home. you have no personal vehicle. you have much in common with your colleagues, also staying in your hotel, but differ in some key social arenae. your roommate is very sick, maybe from dinner. you must rise by 6am each day.

what will you do?
>_

3/5/2013 11:18:11 PM

or am I

3/5/2013 11:19:09 PM

Go to bed because its 11:20 and the bars are closed?

3/5/2013 11:21:22 PM

BWN

3/5/2013 11:22:22 PM

eat at said restaurants, hang out with the colleagues after work at said bars, and play in the snow.

Get to bed by 11:30?

3/5/2013 11:25:43 PM

see how many guns you can buy in the immediate area.

PM [user]Geniusboy[/user] for funds. Outside of Memphis..Tennessee is a bunch of Dairy Queens, trailer parks, terrible landscape and poverty. Arm yourself immediately. These are the same people that fund "Dollywood" and UT Football.

3/5/2013 11:29:05 PM

get my own damned room if the roommate is sick

3/5/2013 11:33:52 PM

Sext your girlfriend. Tell her how sexy her hair cut is.

3/5/2013 11:36:44 PM

make a sled out of shit you find in your hotel room

then go back in time to the 1940s

http://www.flickr.com/photos/doe-oakridge/8230919062/

[Edited on March 5, 2013 at 11:38 PM. Reason : e]

3/5/2013 11:37:14 PM

Go Vols

3/5/2013 11:41:00 PM

^^That is awesome.

3/5/2013 11:44:19 PM

break into Oak Ridge National Laboratory, borrow their time machine and go back in time before you made this thread...

3/6/2013 12:22:51 AM

why would he break in

that's where he goes at 6am

3/6/2013 12:26:47 AM

well that makes it easier to get access to said time machine...

3/6/2013 12:29:48 AM

BRILLIANT

3/6/2013 12:30:02 AM

i'd call my friend jitendra that works at oak ridge and get a beer w/ him.

3/6/2013 12:50:56 AM

i would apply for a new job, cuz my current job is evidently sending me on business trips and not sacking up for individual rooms.

3/6/2013 1:00:46 AM

sounds like a school trip or some shit

3/6/2013 1:03:22 AM

It's good for team building and company morale.

LOL

3/6/2013 8:09:33 AM

hit up Frances McSherry/Rose Mary Booth/Betty Szabs/Eunice Belding/Maycene Marley Virginia Jones

3/6/2013 8:41:59 AM

You can't really go looking for interesting things in "Anywhere, USA," You have to wait for them to come to you. Chill at the bar at the chain restaurant for as long as possible (hotel rooms are depressing anyway), strike up as many conversations as possible. Once the bar closes, wander around to the nearest gas station and get a 22 for a night cap.

If nothing interesting happens then it just wasn't meant to be.

3/6/2013 8:54:39 AM

Respond to Craigslist ads and hang around the back alleys looking for some clandestine action.

3/6/2013 9:00:18 AM

You're travelling for business and you have a roommate? What the fuck?

3/6/2013 10:10:05 AM

^^^ Oak Ridge isn't exactly Anywhere, USA. If your goal is to bang scientists, Oak Ridge is a good place to start. You can't swing a cat without hitting a PhD.

3/6/2013 3:45:37 PM

The people may be intelligent, but my experience is that once you get outside of Knoxville (and especially along 40 just west of Knoxville) it is all one continuous strip mall - the same as you would see in most medium sized towns anywhere in the US

3/6/2013 3:55:02 PM

build a fort/quarantine area in your room with sheets & furniture. this will protect you from the sickness.

3/6/2013 3:57:49 PM

speaking of nailing scientists from oak ridge, funny fact: it's DOE policy that if you sleep with someone that you think is too attractive for you more than once, you must report it.

3/6/2013 4:19:39 PM

350 pounds of pimp nigga from Tennessee

3/6/2013 4:20:41 PM

Beat off

I'm Krallum and I approved this message.

3/6/2013 4:23:07 PM

Quote :

"You can't swing a cat without hitting a PhD."

That's terrible methodology for finding a PhD.

3/6/2013 4:24:18 PM

is there some bartender's convention going on in tennessee?

why would it start so early in the day?

why shacked up with another person on a business trip?

so many questions pairoballs

3/6/2013 4:26:11 PM

Quote :

"speaking of nailing scientists from oak ridge, funny fact: it's DOE policy that if you sleep with someone that you think is too attractive for you more than once, you must report it. "

Like Keri Russell?

3/6/2013 4:43:47 PM

So would you just tell your supervisor you thought those skanks were all butterfaces then it would be cool?

WHY YOU NO ATTRACTIVE MORE?

3/6/2013 7:27:43 PM

you need to find these guys they will show you what to do next

3/6/2013 7:47:19 PM

this thread is funnier to me if I don't clarify anything

but i've been drinking at the ruby tuesday next to the hotel two nights in a row

i used to bartend at a ruby tuesday years ago

that should tell you something about what's still open within walking distance by the time I'm done at ORNL

also, big ed's pizza slays pretty much everything in raleigh, or anywhere else I've been for that matter. I'd vote big ed's for king of the pizza of the world

3/6/2013 11:31:51 PM

Meth. I hear its the bees knees in TN

3/6/2013 11:41:39 PM

I was gonna recommend Big Ed's, but I wasn't sure if it was in walking distance! Besides catching up with family, eating at Big Ed's is pretty much the only thing we do in Oak Ridge now.

You can also go to the museum and touch the thing that makes your hair stand up. But I think my other two favorite attractions, laser tag and Fazoli's, shut down some time ago.

3/7/2013 12:04:12 AM

chances that the best pizza in the world is made in oak ridge, tn: 0%.

3/7/2013 12:04:19 AM

Best pizza in the world is in Virginia Beach

3/7/2013 12:07:45 AM

I worked out at the giant gym across the street because it was free with the room. I was only there one night for work though

3/7/2013 8:17:17 AM