Super cool, and I bet housekeeping loved tidying up after turning a motel room into a street biology lab. Honestly, I think I’d prefer to stay in a room previously used to cook meth.

You think pond water is the worst thing an $80 motel room has seen?

Jugs of brackish water lined the walls. Buckets overflowed with hunks of marsh grass.

I don’t know, that goes a little above and beyond IMO. One typically doesn’t do science in a house-type setting, for many of the same reasons you don’t carpet a bathroom.

for many of the same reasons you don’t carpet a bathroom

For some reason this is a commonplace in the UK.

Yeah....