Spike ,'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
While the planes I'd have access to probably wouldn't make it to the west coast in one hop, it would be a lot easier than a road trip.
And pilots are very generous hosts, if you don't feel like camping at the field (which a lot of people do). It's one of my great regrets that I'm not able to fly in small planes - I would love to have my license and hop around the country.
Holiday Inn in London now offers "human bed-warmer" service:
If requested, a willing staff-member at two of the chain's London hotels and one in the northern English city of Manchester will dress in an all-in-one fleece sleeper suit before slipping between the sheets.
"The new Holiday Inn bed warmers service is a bit like having a giant hot water bottle in your bed," Holiday Inn spokeswoman Jane Bednall said in an e-mailed statement.
The bed-warmer is equipped with a thermometer to measure the bed's required temperature of 20 degrees Celsius (68 Fahrenheit).
Holiday Inn said the warmer would be fully dressed and leave the bed before the guest occupied it. They could not confirm if the warmer would shower first, but said hair would be covered.
GROSS!
EW EW EW EW EW EW EW!!
WTF? Who would want that?
If anyone is in need of some adorableness, I think a look at this [link] is in order.
My immediate reaction was "If I want another human being in my hotel bed, I WILL BRING HIM OR HER WITH ME."
Do they not have hot water bottles and electric blankets in the UK?
that is just not right. also? given our reaction, my guess is the people requesting the services will tend toward the odd and the job will be EWWWW inducing for the hotel workers also.
Everything about that is ew. Except for the the fleece suit. That sounds cozy and I might like one.
Thank goodness for baby koalas.
I'm with Jesse -- a fleece suit sounds better than a human bed-warmer.