Snort!
FWIW, the budget hotel industry is suffering right now, and laundry costs are starting to be a make-it-or-break-it deal. It’s been a pretty hard step for most hotel owners to make, but it’s either that or get out of the budget hotel business. Signs saying “deal with us not changing the sheets or we’ll convert to a Holiday Inn and charge you an extra hundred bucks for the room” wouldn’t go over so well.
I would certainly accept “In order to keep our prices as low as they are, we appreciate your help in reusing your linens where practical,” over “We’re such do-goody earth-conscious people that we’re not going to do your laundry tomorrow.” Give me the honest truth over a pretty lie any day.
I don’t care - either way, to me it feels weird and wasteful to have freshly-washed sheets every day. I can go by a week with a single pair of sheets at a hotel just as well as I can at home. That kind of extravagance just makes me uncomfortable.
They think we’re very stupid, and the general public doesn’t prove them wrong very often. We are a critically-thinking bunch here; we are not Joe Public. Joe and Jane Public take comfort in not questioning.
Recent favorites of mine:
the downsizing of (formerly) two liter bottles of Coke (with new convenient shape!) and the shrinking Poland Spring water cooler bottle (conveniently made smaller at the same price for people who have a hard time picking up great honkin’ jugs of water but don’t want none of that there charity).
Oh, I just thought of the Cadbury Thins chocolate bars - they’re advertising them for women, because they have fewer calories - BECAUSE THEY’RE SMALLER!! I haven’t seen yet, but I suspect they’re the same price as a regular chocolate bar.
After getting rid of my heavy television set for a set top box & monitor set-up, I found I couldn’t actually watch anything other than regular TV[sup]*[/sup] since the monitor isn’t HDCP compliant.
At the time I didn’t even know what that meant, so I looked up more information. It theoretically prevents piracy by preventing any access to the digital signal (High Def. Content Protection) going to the monitor. Of course, the statement I read about it said, “HDCP isn’t about restricting what you can see, it’s about preserving the integrity of the data”.
But I’ve got Monster Cable! I shouldn’t have to worry about the evil demons trying to destroy my signal, should I?
[sup]*[/sup]I live on the other side of the hill from the transmitters, so I can’t even pick up any HD stations.
I make brownies for Dopefests, pot lucks, and other things to which I’m expected to bring food. They’re made from a mix, but they’re chocolate and people like them. Several months ago, the companies which make brownie mix decided it would be more convenient to change the size from a 13" x 9" pan to an 8" x 8" pan without changing the price. They’re calling the old size “family size”, although at least they’re still selling it. Yeah, right. :rolleyes:
CJ