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Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


§ ita § - Apr 28, 2013 5:43:50 pm PDT #20948 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Clean up for the hotel staff? Fair enough, that's an alien concept to me. Just cotching on the corner is such an inherent part of the hotel experience that as long as we're not bumping into each other, I like that they're in and out like brownies.

I have a rogue device on my home network. Something keeps trying to log into my email server, fails, and then gets me locked out of my webmail IP. Five times today, but I've shut all the email clients off as soon as I think I'm clear...IT HAPPENS AGAIN. I've scanned everything for viruses, I'm clean AND IT IS STILL HAPPENING. I'm going beserk.


Juliebird - Apr 28, 2013 5:48:38 pm PDT #20949 of 30001
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

Ginger, I can use round up for some of it, but other spots its in too tight with the other perennials.


meara - Apr 28, 2013 6:49:23 pm PDT #20950 of 30001

I always let them clean hotel rooms, except rare vacation occasions when I'm in the room or in and out all day. But I hate turndown service because I hate coming in and the tv or radio is on and I didn't leave it on. That creeps me out.


Vortex - Apr 28, 2013 6:51:36 pm PDT #20951 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

I always have them clean. And I'm that horrible person who wants clean towels every day :) To me, it's part of the perqs of being in a hotel. Although this last time, the hotel was offering Starwood points for not getting clean sheets and towels.


Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 28, 2013 7:05:30 pm PDT #20952 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

I'm still not sure if it was turndown service or something more bizarre that was responsible for me finding the radio blaring salsa music when I returned to my haunted hotel room at 1 a.m.


meara - Apr 28, 2013 7:18:57 pm PDT #20953 of 30001

There is someone playing violin in the hotel room next to mine. Not badly, but still random.


Scrappy - Apr 28, 2013 8:11:26 pm PDT #20954 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

I keep towels and sheets, but expect them to make my bed and tidy each day. I love coming back to a clean room.


Burrell - Apr 28, 2013 9:20:25 pm PDT #20955 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Hey, meara is in LA!

I like having housekeeping come in and make the beds. I wish I had someone at home to come make the beds too. I'm fine with making my own, but I resent like hell making the kids' beds, and they almost never make them without being nagged, and there's only so many things I'm willing to nag them about.


erin_obscure - Apr 28, 2013 9:51:25 pm PDT #20956 of 30001
Occasionally I’m callous and strange

I instinctively make the bed when I get out of it so cleaning staff doesn't really help me unless I'm somewhere long enough to need re-stocking of toilet paper and such...and since I rarely spend more than a few days in hotel I prefer to just keep the do not disturb sign out at all times and save the cleaning staff a few minutes a day. Unless there's serious filthy cleanup and clean towels are needed...I only wash mine at home every other week or so. Hey, I only dry off once i'm clean, right? How dirty are the towels gonna get? (yeah, yeah, I know, it's flawed logic but there's my brain.)


Theodosia - Apr 29, 2013 2:48:21 am PDT #20957 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

erin, if you're wrong about towels not getting that dirty when you dry off after washing thoroughly, I don't want to be right.

I do like having someone make the bed and clean the bathroom, so I never saw a reason to keep housekeeping out. But then, I don't get to stay in hotels much these days, le sigh.