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Old 13th Feb 2008, 10:27
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ONTPax
 
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One More Thing To Worry About

Re that YouTube video, I've encountered some staff help that has almost been that aggressive. One of them opened my door after **very briefly** announcing "Housekeeping", and got an excellent view of me, still mostly asleep, lying in the buff and with my ass fully exposed in her direction. Needless to say, she closed the door and retreated just as quickly as she had barged in!

Another thing to be aware of while using hotel accommodations is the bedspread. It's about as unsanitary as the drinking glasses and coffee cups. They're supposed to change the sheets on each bed after a person has occupied the room, and in most cases that's what happens. But bedspreads are not changed and laundered after each occupancy of the room. There was a TV investigative reporter a few years back who brought in ultraviolet lights and did some chemical tests on the bedspreads. Many of them had traces of certain bodily fluids on them. You probably don't want to know what specific bodily fluids were discovered in their investigation!

Whenever I go into a hotel / motel room, the first thing I do is pull back the bedspread and make a point to only come in contact with the bed sheets. Oh, yes. I also deadbolt the door from the inside in the hope that it will keep aggressive chambermaids away.

ONTPax

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