I make up my bed before I check out of a hotel - I got that habit from my mother. When I stay at someone’s house I usually do it as well. It just seems crass to haul out of there and leave the room in disarray (yes, even though you paid a small fortune for it).
I worked at a company where I coordinated two clerks who cleaned up our conference rooms after each meeting. Even though it was their job to pick up all the empty coffee cups, sugar packets, box lunches, and other trash, I couldn’t help but be a little disgusted that some meeting attendants couldn’t manage to toss their trash before exiting. But then, I make up my bed before I check out…
Greatest line I’ve read on the dope for a while. I’d sig it if I sig’d things.
I know people who always make their bed in hotels. It always seemed a bit odd, but not "tool"ish.
I never have and don’t, but I do it when I’m staying in people’s houses. Most hotel rooms I’ve been in have double beds, and if I’m staying in it alone, making the bed I sleep in would mean that they would either have to change the sheets on both beds, or neither.
Which means that instead of simply stripping an unmade bed, the chambermaid (likely to be a poorly educated woman who cannot find any other job) has to undo your work in order to change the linens. When you have twenty rooms to clean, every little extra bit of work is a burden.
Moreover, make it well enough, and the chambermaid may not know that you’ve used the bed, which may well mean that the next guest doesn’t get clean linens because no one knew that the linens in your bed had been used.
You’re not doing anyone any good by carrying over some ridiculous anal habit into a hotel room that you’re leaving. It’s unnecessary, and frankly, just damned rude.
I hope you at least leave an appropriate tip for the maid, but since most people don’t, I won’t hold my breath for that.
Nah, take it out on the customer instead. What about getting employers to pay a decent living wage? If you can’t pay the wages you don’t have a viable company IMO.
Sounds like nice plan to make a steak cost $25 at Ruby Tuesday’s.
My first instinct is that it would balance out but I know it would NEVER work that way. We’d get used to the higher prices then they’d go higher still and the extra WOULDN’T go to the wait staff.
I don’t think this makes him a jerk. He’s a famous guy whose image is very valuable. Why should a “poor artist” profit off of that?
And he needs to sue to maintain his rights. It might be a poor artist in this case but what if, say, the North American Man-Boy Love Association decided to put his face on a brochure? Shouldn’t he be allowed to control the manner in which his image is used commercially?
I agree with Zoff the artist is making serious bucks off of a picture he drew of Tiger (and a bunch of other golfers). The artist, of course, makes the “freedom of speech” claim, which is horse hockey. It’s not like the guy painted a picture and hung it in his living room, he’s making hundreds of expensive lithographs, and many thousands of posters to sell who knows where?
If it was a trading card, or a bobble-head doll, you can be damn sure they would have gotten Tiger’s permission ahead of time. This goes back to the earliest days of trading cards too, Honus Wagner (IIRC) had his trading card pulled off the shelf because he didn’t want to be associated with the tobacco company that put them out.
In and of itself it isn’t the problem but when I put it together with the no tipping smartass stuff I get a picture of a really anal guy. He sounds like the sort of guy a laid back dude like me would just hate.
On November 13th, Tiger Woods was asked to remove himself from his place of residence. That request came from his wife. Deep down, he knew she was right, but he also knew that someday he would return to her. With nowhere else to go, he appeared at the home of his childhood friend, KidCharlemagne. Sometime earlier, Charlemagne’s wife had thrown him out, requesting that he never return. Can two divorced men share an apartment without driving each other crazy?
I am really, really, doubtful that it takes any more time, except on perhaps the order of milliseconds, to strip a made bed than it does an unmade one. In fact, since most people leave the sheets in somewhat of a tangle when they get out, it may take less time to strip the made bed, unless the bed maker has tucked the spread into the pillowcases or something.
As for the OP, I dunno if he is a smartass and sometimes I don’t feel like tipping (but I always leave something). In some countries, tipping is not the accepted norm. And in England, it is not expected that you would tip a bartender for getting you a drink.
How can you describe yourself as a laid back dude? How laid back is it to start off a mindless rant like this one about someone who has (presumably) never done you any harm?
Can’t we all agree that us Kiwis and Aussies and Brits and others don’t tip in our countries, that our wait staff get paid an appropriate amount as part of their wages, that those in the US do tip, and their wait staff don’t get paid an appropriate wage?
Trying to bring this back on topic, I can’t stand Tiger Woods because the hype all around him makes me sick. Yes, he is an amazing talent. But it’s boring to see him win all the time and listen to TV fawn all over him like Ahmad Rashaad did for Michael Jordan. Newsflash: there ARE other golfers besides Tiger, and there are golf fans that don’t require wall-to-wall Tiger to watch and enjoy a tournament.
