I've seen those cottage cheese ceilings. Horrible! It's very hard to just relax, close your eyes, and fall asleep when you lie down under a cottage cheese ceiling.

It is the prevalence of cottage cheese ceilings in cheap motels, in fact, that led my workmate Jim Townsley to remark on various occasions (in reference to some woman passing by...): "She's a curd counter." This was a variant on his usual "she's a spot counter" remarks.

Jim and I worked at the gas bar on Highway 11. He had a lot of provocative one-liners about women.