it's 1 am
You've been driving for a full day now. You still have so much time until you get home, and you're getting sleepy, so you stop at some shady highway hotel.
You COULD have just slept in your car and avoided paying over 80 dollars for one night, but you didn't feel like ending up as a cautionary tale for the next generations.
it looks...strange. decrepit. But you figure that's the price to pay when you sleep at a cheap place.