I’ve been thinking a lot about the Mariott Courtyard hotel I stayed at this weekend in Shermer, Illinois.
Two things come to mind:
- They sell bottled iced tea for a buck and a half in the vending machines. But if you swipe a handful of teabags from the honor bar, put them in the coffee pot in the room boil water with it, and then dump it into a bucket of ice – free fresh iced tea!
This has nothing with me being Jewish or cheap or miserly or unwealthy. I just like swiping things from honor bars. (Every try to put a brass barstool in an overhead luggage compartment?) - The doors all had safety latches on the inside that you could flip out to keep the door open:
But the brass latch fixture digs into the wood of the door.
Why isn’t there some kind of latch-shield to protect the door against constant bumping and slamming against this this fixture? You’d think they’d want the doors to look nice and pretty.
Anyway, just two random thoughts.
PS:
Oh, and this is the dessert I didn’t eat:
I ate more green beans and assorted raw vegetables instead. Because they’re Mother Nature’s idea of a snack, and Sarah Lee is a dirty slut whore friend of the Devil!
Yes Sarah Lee is a dirty slut whore friend of Betty Crocker.
Most “reputable” hotels actually do have a plate that protects against that latch from digging into the door. Maybe that’s how they were saving money, figuring that travelling cheapskates won’t care if the door’s all dinged up.
Seriously, I’m surprised they didn’t have a plate there because that’s what all the cleaning people do to keep from having to unlock the door each time. Which is also a good reason why you don’t want to leave your valuables unattended in the room. The cleaning crew is probably trustworthy, but you never know what disreputable person like Harvey or Spacemonkey might be wandering down the hall and decide to swipe your stuff.
Sara Lee: Plot by Bush to cause people to become thinner when they eat the things they shouldn’t in order to distract from medicare.
Busted up door frame: Plot by Bush to make it easier to spy on dissidents by slipping small microphones in through the splintered wood. Originally suggested by Karl Rove.
Bottled Ice Tea: Plot by Bush, headed by Cheney. Only $.25 of each of those bottles go to the company that makes it and to the hotel. The rest is all funneled to Halliburton.
mmmm steak for desert. My favorite