# 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:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-found-a-vibrator-in-my-hotel-room/493489/21 "2009-04-19T06:31:25Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > 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.” I think that I’d probably want to call the head of housekeeping to my room, and show her just what I found. I think that she would take appropriate measures. I don’t know if I’d take it any further. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-found-a-vibrator-in-my-hotel-room/493489/22 "2009-04-19T08:12:44Z")
…:dubious: Well, it was Easter. Someone probably found vibrating blue egg earlier.:o ---
**Author:** ![3trew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/13edae/32.png) [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-found-a-vibrator-in-my-hotel-room/493489/23 "2009-04-20T02:04:22Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Did it say “Gideon” anywhere? > > I’m thinking it’s for guests who have no use for a bible – they call it a vible. 😛 If somebody can organize a deal with a hotel chain, I’m in for a case of “silver bullets”. NB: name may be regional, no associations with Coors Brewery or The Lone Ranger intended, unless you find that sort of thing exciting, in which case go for it. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-found-a-vibrator-in-my-hotel-room/493489/24 "2009-04-20T02:12:15Z")
I’m just trying to figure out what the big deal is. Just throw the thing away in a trashcan outside your hotel room. Trust me, the staff knows far more about your co-workers sexual pecadillo’s than you realize. Who has a thing for hookers? They know. Who likes to toss off and wipe their spooge on the sheets? They know. Who gets blowjobs from strange men off of Craigslist now they’re away from the wife? They know. The fact that you found a vibrator probably makes them relax a bit, knowing that at least this time it isn’t a used fleshlight. 😉 ---
**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 20, 2009, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-found-a-vibrator-in-my-hotel-room/493489/25 "2009-04-20T02:21:00Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > I’m just trying to figure out what the big deal is. Just throw the thing away in a trashcan outside your hotel room. > > Trust me, the staff knows far more about your co-workers sexual pecadillo’s than you realize. Who has a thing for hookers? They know. Who likes to toss off and wipe their spooge on the sheets? They know. Who gets blowjobs from strange men off of Craigslist now they’re away from the wife? They know. > > The fact that you found a vibrator probably makes them relax a bit, knowing that at least this time it isn’t a used fleshlight. 😉 What does a fleshlight do? Ooh, let me guess – does it make a certain orifice glow when inserted? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-found-a-vibrator-in-my-hotel-room/493489/26 "2009-04-20T02:27:41Z")
> [@](#): > > I think that I’d probably want to call the head of housekeeping to my room, and show her just what I found. I think that she would take appropriate measures. Well, of course, if she’s hot. (or were you thinking of different appropriate measures?) ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-found-a-vibrator-in-my-hotel-room/493489/27 "2009-04-20T02:27:56Z")
Google is your friend, **Boyo** … ---
**Author:** ![CallMeKate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3d9bf3/32.png) [@CallMeKate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CallMeKate)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-found-a-vibrator-in-my-hotel-room/493489/28 "2009-04-20T04:55:01Z")
Has anyone considered it might be a cleaning lady that likes to enjoy herself in her spare time? Slips right up to room 306 and have a little mid-day romp with herself?? I’m betting that’s it. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-found-a-vibrator-in-my-hotel-room/493489/29 "2009-04-20T13:25:56Z")
> [@CallMeKate](#): > > Has anyone considered it might be a cleaning lady that likes to enjoy herself in her spare time? Slips right up to room 306 and have a little mid-day romp with herself?? > I’m betting that’s it. That was my first thought as well. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-found-a-vibrator-in-my-hotel-room/493489/30 "2009-04-20T13:50:13Z")
> [@dgrdfd](#): > > 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. And I thought _I_ was paranoid. ---
**Author:** ![SCSimmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@SCSimmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCSimmons)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-found-a-vibrator-in-my-hotel-room/493489/31 "2009-04-20T14:34:25Z")
> [@dgrdfd](#): > > 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. In the days before screen savers, too, I take it? In that case, it could have been worse; it could have gone unnoticed for days, and ended up permanently burning a ghost image of that image into the monitor. Try explaining _that_. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![spifflog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@spifflog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spifflog)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-found-a-vibrator-in-my-hotel-room/493489/32 "2009-04-20T16:39:03Z")
Why not just throw it in the trash? Don’t call the management, don’t throw a fit with management, just toss it? Do you really care that the maid cleaning your room thinks? If you do, how to you get though the day interacting with the 200 other people who impact your life more? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-found-a-vibrator-in-my-hotel-room/493489.md?page=1)