When I stayed there, no one batted an eye when I runway walked around the lobby in a tank top and a pair of Daisy Dukes.

excuse me, but the game is "Spot the Hooker" and my friends and I have been happily playing it at parties and Hamptons weddings for more than a decade.

The staff may be lax, but the ATMs are hard wired straight to FBI headquarters.

@BettyCrocker: They did stop me just that once when I was wearing only the stilettos and lacy camisole.

I spotted a hooker once ...

Damned leopard-humping fantasy.

I used to work just up the block from this hotel. The thing to realize about that neighborhood is that it is chock a block full of big moneyed galoots. I won't say that "everybody" knew what the Mayflower was for. But those that needed to know did.

pffh. for a real good time, new york avenue is where it's AT. the cheap liquor stores, the discarded luncheonette, the holiday inn...ah, memories of youth.

@donmiguel: Sufferin' succotash. I love the word "galoot."

@scroll_lock: Thongs are your friend. *nods sagely*

@donmiguel:
you mean that it wasn't a ho-tel?

@BettyCrocker: So true. And I thought it was excessive that they patted me down.

@mitchel_stevens: So, then, a place used primarily for homosexual assignations would be a 'Mo-tel?

@scroll_lock: I don't mind that if they're big and law enforcementy hot.

Based on this information, are you telling me the movie Pretty Woman was not fiction?

When I stayed there 'GFE' was on the menu, right there between carpaccioed lamb and Grey Goose appletinis. As long as it's straight and of age, they don't care. Now all the trannies and republicans go to the Willard.

i call bullshit on the idea that there were "attractive women" hanging out at the mayflower. even by dc standards.

It's like the Watergate of Washington hotels.

@Sarcastro:
of course. the following are also acceptable:
"Bath-Room"
"Bath-House"
"Tisch."

You know some female D.C. resident who just really likes to shop at Bebe and is proud of her legs is readng that article right now like, "Hey...!"

Pareene, are you advocating the equivalent of racial profiling? The staff should call police with no real evidence of a crime? (If you were being ironic, so am I.)

@donmiguel: It's another one of those old Washington traditions started by JFK.

@BadUncle: Thanks! Lummox works well too, according to Mr. T(hesaurus). But the best is numbnuts. Yep. I'm a word nerd.

@mitchel_stevens: Nice catch.

@Sarcastro: Ha!

@PandoraSpocks: Did Kennedy start the sex with whor..., I mean, with women to whom one is not married tradition? Or did he start the sex in the Mayflower one? If the second -- they should put up a plaque.

@donmiguel: Silly. Kennedy was famous for lacy camisoles. That's where the whole "Camelot" thing" came from.

@collegecallgirl: I know her. And she DOES get mistaken for a call girl all the time. She just bought some dumpy khakis to blend in more.