# So I found a vibrator in my hotel room **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 18, 2009, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-found-a-vibrator-in-my-hotel-room/493489 "2009-04-18T01:11:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dgrdfd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@dgrdfd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dgrdfd)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-found-a-vibrator-in-my-hotel-room/493489/1 "2009-04-18T01:11:34Z")
I was on business travel and when I was cleaning up my room to leave I noticed a pink little box hidden between the rectangular base of the bed and the blanket thing that covers up the box springs. I pulled it out and noticed it had an on/off switch and what appeared to be a microphone. I thought I had been bugged! So I clicked the switch on and heard a vibrating noise. I pulled this hidden device from underneath the bed on the floor and it looked like an oblong egg with a string attached to it. Then I realized I was touching a vibrator and was grossed out. I didn’t know what to do. I wanted no part of just tossing it in the trash can or leaving it there because they would have thought it was mine. My company’s main headquarters are there and I didn’t want there to be any way it would get back to people I work with. I sure as hell wasn’t going to take with me. So I raised up the mattress/box springs and threw it under the bed in the rectangular base that supports the bed. By the time they find it they won’t be able to tie it to anyone in particular. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-found-a-vibrator-in-my-hotel-room/493489/2 "2009-04-18T01:21:43Z")
Did it say “Gideon” anywhere? I’m thinking it’s for guests who have no use for a bible – they call it a vible. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-found-a-vibrator-in-my-hotel-room/493489/3 "2009-04-18T01:56:48Z")
Maybe that’s what they leave now instead of mints on the pillow. It was clearly unused and intended just for you, **dgrdfd!** ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-found-a-vibrator-in-my-hotel-room/493489/4 "2009-04-18T01:59:39Z")
What’s so gross about a vibrator? It sounds like a hot discovery. Of course you only imagine the owner of it was the finest possible specimen. ---
**Author:** ![mattomic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ec8ea/32.png) [@mattomic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mattomic)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-found-a-vibrator-in-my-hotel-room/493489/5 "2009-04-18T02:00:15Z")
Why NOT throw it out? It’s not like someone’s gonna call up the hotel saying “Hi, I’d like to report an item I lost in a room about a month ago… it’s a vibrating egg. Right. No, like, as in a sex toy. Like, you put it… hello? Hello?” ---
**Author:** ![lavenderviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cdc98d/32.png) [@lavenderviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lavenderviolet)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-found-a-vibrator-in-my-hotel-room/493489/6 "2009-04-18T02:57:23Z")
The reason that would bother me is that it would make me wonder if the housekeeping staff were cutting corners when they clean the rooms in between guest. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-found-a-vibrator-in-my-hotel-room/493489/7 "2009-04-18T03:00:58Z")
I’m sure it was sanitized for your protection, right? ETA - and did anybody think the housekeeping staff WASN’T cutting corners? The housekeeping staff is a big fat circle and you know it and you feel white middle class guilt about it. It’s okay, we all do. ---
**Author:** ![Earthworm\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f07891/32.png) [@Earthworm\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthworm_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-found-a-vibrator-in-my-hotel-room/493489/8 "2009-04-18T03:10:34Z")
I found a bootleg chinese porn dvd stashed in the top of the hotel-room closet last month. “Sexually Promiscuous Gril’s story” (yes, that’s “Gril’s”) I kept it as a souvenier. I still haven’t watched it though. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-found-a-vibrator-in-my-hotel-room/493489/9 "2009-04-18T03:21:40Z")
> [@dgrdfd](#): > > I didn’t know what to do. I wanted no part of just tossing it in the trash can or leaving it there because they would have thought it was mine. My company’s main headquarters are there and I didn’t want there to be any way it would get back to people I work with. I sure as hell wasn’t going to take with me. So I raised up the mattress/box springs and threw it under the bed in the rectangular base that supports the bed. If the next person to stay in that room is a princess, you’re screwed. ---
**Author:** ![dgrdfd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@dgrdfd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dgrdfd)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-found-a-vibrator-in-my-hotel-room/493489/10 "2009-04-18T03:50:29Z")
> [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](#): > > Maybe that’s what they leave now instead of mints on the pillow. It was clearly unused and intended just for you, **dgrdfd!** So you think it was a setup? Like they were testing me and now that it’s gone it is proof I am a freak and took it for my personal use? 😃 > [@Rigamarole](#): > > What’s so gross about a vibrator? It sounds like a hot discovery. Of course you only imagine the owner of it was the finest possible specimen. Of course, [that’s what I thought of when I first touched it](http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Entertainment/Images/erica-hill-cnn.jpg), then I realized it was probably her [meth-head sister-in-law](http://www.minti.com/image/8166/Faces%2520of%2520Meth%2520%25EF%25BF%25BD%25202005%2520F4.jpg/) and that caused me to get grossed out. > [@mattomic](#): > > Why NOT throw it out? It’s not like someone’s gonna call up the hotel saying “Hi, I’d like to report an item I lost in a room about a month ago… it’s a vibrating egg. Right. No, like, as in a sex toy. Like, you put it… hello? Hello?” But when the cleaning staff empties the trash they would see it there and one thing leads to another and suddenly everyone there is like “hey, it’s Vibrator Guy” when I walk in. How would I explain that to my coworkers? > [@Zsofia](#): > > I’m sure it was sanitized for your protection, right? Haha, I bet. She (he?) probably got off and then passed out and forgot about it. 😃 I did something similar when I was like 14. I was looking at a porn pic (hey this was in dial-up days when you really couldn’t stream video) and I got off and promptly fell asleep in my room with the pic up. My mom walked in the next day and it was pretty embarrassing for me. > [@Earthworm\_Jim](#): > > I found a bootleg chinese porn dvd stashed in the top of the hotel-room closet last month. “Sexually Promiscuous Gril’s story” (yes, that’s “Gril’s”) > > I kept it as a souvenier. I still haven’t watched it though. Funny they correctly spelled “promiscuous” but misspelled “girls.” Oh, and your man card is hereby being revoked for finding a porno DVD and not watching it. > [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > If the next person to stay in that room is a princess, you’re screwed. This could have made for a great Seinfeld skit where George finds it and is freaked out not wanting to get caught so he does something somewhat crazy yet somewhat plausible and then has to try to explain his way out of it. Oh, and I am really not that worried about getting caught with it and have “teh gay.” I just think it’s funny that it was there. It actually kind of turned me on. ---
**Author:** ![mattomic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ec8ea/32.png) [@mattomic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mattomic)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-found-a-vibrator-in-my-hotel-room/493489/11 "2009-04-18T03:51:04Z")
> [@Earthworm\_Jim](#): > > I found a bootleg chinese porn dvd stashed in the top of the hotel-room closet last month. “Sexually Promiscuous Gril’s story” (yes, that’s “Gril’s”) > > I kept it as a souvenier. I still haven’t watched it though. Mm, love that sexy grill porn. I remember picking up a really nasty grill DVD when I was in Thailand. Old, blackened grill, must’ve been a Weber, getting brushed down by a thick, 10-inch grill brush. They cranked that bad boy up to about 350 degrees. Don’t even get me started on that slim, shiny rotisserie spit they brought in. ---
**Author:** ![dgrdfd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@dgrdfd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dgrdfd)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-found-a-vibrator-in-my-hotel-room/493489/12 "2009-04-18T03:53:51Z")
And interestingly enough I did a Google search for “Sexually Promiscuous Gril’s story” and this thread is already indexed for all eternity. Google is fast. ---
**Author:** ![Stealth\_Potato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Stealth\_Potato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stealth_Potato)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-found-a-vibrator-in-my-hotel-room/493489/13 "2009-04-18T07:20:23Z")
> [@dgrdfd](#): > > And interestingly enough I did a Google search for “Sexually Promiscuous Gril’s story” and this thread is already indexed for all eternity. Google is fast. Well, no wonder. [Google _is_ a pervert](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=514485), after all… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-found-a-vibrator-in-my-hotel-room/493489/14 "2009-04-18T08:09:06Z")
> [@dgrdfd](#): > > But when the cleaning staff empties the trash they would see it there and one thing leads to another and suddenly everyone there is like “hey, it’s Vibrator Guy” when I walk in. How would I explain that to my coworkers? Tell them you studied for years with a Shaolin master to attain the necessary muscle control. ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-found-a-vibrator-in-my-hotel-room/493489/15 "2009-04-18T11:28:45Z")
> [@dgrdfd](#): > > It actually kind of turned me on. Wait. You turned it on and it turned you on. WTF? Do you have any idea how many people yearn for a relationship like this? Go back and get it before it’s too late. Do it properly. Think Richard Gere in _An Officer and a Gentleman_. Good luck! ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-found-a-vibrator-in-my-hotel-room/493489/16 "2009-04-18T11:40:48Z")
Yes, face it, for most of of, the closest we’re going to get to Deb Winger is a vibrator and a magazine picture. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-found-a-vibrator-in-my-hotel-room/493489/17 "2009-04-18T12:02:18Z")
Can’t believe you’d worry about the housekeeping staff figuring out who you are and calling up your boss and telling him what you tossed in the trash in a hotel room while traveling. But I remember a similar story about someone trying to hide something embarrassing in one of those bed bases in Columbus, Georgia. A guest a week or two later noticed a really bad smell and they discovered someone had stuffed a rather inconvenient dead body in the bed platform, rather that toss it in the proper receptacle in the bathroom, or even toss it in the trash can in the lobby. I’ve always worried about that poor guest who discovered he’d been sleeping on top of a dead body for two days… ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-found-a-vibrator-in-my-hotel-room/493489/18 "2009-04-18T13:01:58Z")
If it were me, I would so return it to the front desk with a nonchalance air, preferably when the lobby is full of people and there are several staff members present. “Oh, by the way, I found this vibrator in my hotel room. You might want to contain the previous occupants to see if they left. And talk to your housekeeping staff about checking the rooms better. Thank you.” ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-found-a-vibrator-in-my-hotel-room/493489/19 "2009-04-19T03:57:38Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Yes, face it, for most of of, the closest we’re going to get to Deb Winger is a vibrator and a magazine picture. Also, for those of us who like to serenade our vibrators, what better song than _Up Where We Belong_. ---
**Author:** ![Satellite\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Satellite\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satellite_Guy)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-found-a-vibrator-in-my-hotel-room/493489/20 "2009-04-19T04:28:55Z")
> [@Earthworm\_Jim](#): > > I found a bootleg chinese porn dvd stashed in the top of the hotel-room closet last month. “Sexually Promiscuous Gril’s story” (yes, that’s “Gril’s”) > > I kept it as a souvenier. I still haven’t watched it though. Yes, I googled it; funny thing is, if you google it with the misspelling (include the quotes), you only get one hit; this thread. If you correct the spelling of girl, you get only one hit, which will list the movie **Earthworm Jim** found, and, yes, on the cover, it IS misspelled… and **YOU** can own it, for _only **$9.95!!** _😃 S^G [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-found-a-vibrator-in-my-hotel-room/493489.md?page=2)