Tiger Woods avoids interviews mainly because he remembers what happened when he gave a lengthy interview to GQ. He told a few raunchy jokes (gosh, a 21 year old guy telling dirty jokes! How shocking!), and he took all kinds of flak for it.
If he’s concluded that he’s better off keeping his mouth shut, avoiding the press, avoiding the spotlight (except when he’s playing), and letting his golf do all the talking for him, I can’t say I blame him.
Maybe Tiger Woods makes the beds to AVOID tipping.
Why? From the accounts I’ve read, John Candy was an all-around good guy, who cared about the little guys. Am I missing something here?
I suspect that Purd was referring to Candy’s current tipping habits.
Well, he was a good tipper, then.
I wonder if Tipper is a good tipper? :smack:
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Yeah, but now he’s a stiff.
Ugh.
Well… DA-AMN!
(In the interest of brevity, I’ll omit the obvious puns about someone waking up on the wrong side of the bed etc.)
Thing of it is – no one who knows me well (which, of course, you don’t) would ever accuse me of making a neat, military-style bed. I agree with you that someone who tries to replicate the hotel’s standards for bed making just to mess with the chambermaid’s mind is a jerk (and has a LOT of time on their hands), but what I neglected to mention in my post (lest it look like a Supreme Court opinion with qualifiers and asides galore – much like this one is starting to), is that I don’t strive to make the bed look like it hasn’t been slept in. Instead, I pull up the blankets and sheets till they’re reasonably smooth, throw the pillows on top, and then pull the coverlet over those. Sometimes I will try for that patented tuck-up under the pillows, but it usually ends up looking rather pathetic. If anything, I imagine the chambermaid has a good hoot when he walks in and sees my sad little attempts. [snooty French chef accent] “You call that a Monroe tuck?! Look at these pillowcases. My poodle could do better! Amateur! Leave this sort of thing to the professionals!” [/snooty French chef accent]
You do make a good point – perhaps it is slightly more inefficient to tidy the bed. I pondered this a bit and decided to call my friend who has managed several hotels, to see if there was a time-honored tradition of bitching about “tidy” guests among chambermaids. He could not think of a single chambermaid of his acquaintance who had ever griped about this. He could, however, remember chambermaids expressing surprise and pleasure when someone did tidy up the bed before departure.
He also said that hotel people develop an eye for telling whether a bed has been used or not. I asked him what they would do if, say, a single person had been given a double room. He said that both beds’ linens would probably be changed anyway – unless the maid could tell the one hadn’t been slept in.
I’ve never had to – I’ve never stayed more than one night in any hotel room. Were I to stay for more than one night, I would most assuredly tip. If tipping the chambermaid for a single night’s stay is required, please let me know. I have never heard of such a thing - especially not at the Motel 6.
Rude? Rude? Are you quite sure that’s the word you wanted to use?
And not just “rude” but “damned rude” even. But enough of this – let’s get to my absolute favorite part of that post:
Is it just me, or did you really try to bring class struggle into this – a discussion about tidying up hotel beds?*
Certainly I didn’t mean to be rude and unfeeling when I so thoughtlessly straightened the blankets on my hotel bed all those times. I can see that the next time I’m in a hotel room, I’m going to have to be very careful about touching the bed after I’ve gotten up. Should I play it safe and pull the bedding to the exact middle of the length of the bed? Should I just leave it where it is – like a shrine?
*There ought to be a Goodwin-esque law about bringing class struggle into everything.
On a more serious note than bed making in hotels, there’s the incident where Tiger wouldn’t give memorabilia for a charity auction for Billy Andrade, which apparently just isn’t done on the Tour. But this was the first year or two Tiger was pro, so I assume he learned (and he must have, or we would have heard of it by now).
Then there’s the Tour Championship immediately after Payne Stewart died, when Tiger (along with a few others) didn’t wear plus-fours, supposedly because he couldn’t find a pair that fit, which was a weak excuse given the number of guys who pinned their pants legs up. I think he was just too cool. (And yeah, it was sort of goofy, but come on, it was Payne Stewart, who was the comeback guy, in golf and life, of the late 90s.)
And, I’ll say again, the reason to hate Tiger is that HE’S JUST TOO DAMN GOOD, AND GOLF ISN’T MEANT TO BE THAT EASY! (Every major should be required to have one day of bad weather like the Open did.)
Is it ok to make the bed if you aren’t checking out, will be in the room for at least six hours before you first leave, giving the maid a chance to clean up?
Or am I supposed to sit in a messy room to save a maid from .16 extra seconds of work?
And I do tip, even if I only stay one night. Though I don’t always let the maid in the room every day. I don’t particularly care if the sheets are two days old. And it would take me a week to use all six towels.
And there is no reason to give someone a chance to see the $3,000 in computer equipment and electronics in the room.
I heard that in some hotels, he arranges to make all the beds in all the rooms on his floor, and the management gives his a discount on his room.
I can see not tipping in countries where it’s not the custom, but a man in Tiger’s position not tipping in the US? Come on Tiger, film just one more commercial per year and you’re sure to make up the difference, if it’s the money. You could endorse a line of money clips if you want to hold on to it that badly.
The making the bed thing, just sounds like a silly, if slightly anal, quirk. Personally, since I don’t mess up a bed much when I sleep in it, I tend to flip the sheets back more, to make it look more “slept in”. Not twist the sheets-type stuff , just loosen it up more. No idea why, I just do.
Tiger’s a smartass? He sure became meek concerning that whole “women members at Augusta” issue. I lost some respect for the guy on that one.
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The memorabilia in question was for Tiger to sign a golf ball. Tiger does not sign golf balls. He was willing to sign other stuff, or provide other stuff, but he will not sign golf balls. And the only people who got upset over that was the media, as Billy said anything that Tiger could provide would be great.
Just out of curiosity, why would he not sign a golf ball?
I can’t say whether he tips regularly, but I can at least say he tips his caddy relatively well. At least that’s what the guy who caddied for him at Hazeltine said when intereviewed. (Tiger tried to play a quiet round to get a feel for the course before the tournement.)
Do you suppose the site is also referring to Al Capone’s current tipping habits? 
I can’t remember the reasoning, but I think it had something to do with retaining control of memorabilia-type stuff. If you’ve got a Tiger Woods signed golf ball, it’s a fake 'cuz he doesn’t sign balls. Or something like that.
Why should Tiger Woods be able to control every single image made of him? Should he be able to control what is said about him too? Should his lawyers sue the Chicago Reader for publishing the damaging things that have been said about him here?
It surprises me that someone would immediately dismiss a First Amendment claim as “horse hockey.” Just because the artist sold prints of the painting does not mean it falls outside of First Amendment protection. That’s like saying it’s OK to write a newspaper article, but once you print thousands of copies and sell it, the First Amendment becomes irrelevant. The medium and the amount of money made are totally irrelevant.
The purpose of the right to publicity law was not to create a right for a celebrity to own all public images of him, but to prevent the implication that he had endorsed a product that he had not. It’s very easy to distinguish this case from the pedophile and tobacoo company example given. By the way, in Cardtoons, L.C. v. Major League Baseball Players Assoc., the court ruled that baseball cards do not infringe on publicity rights.
The brief for the Newspaper Association of America put it well: “Mr. Woods’s extraordinary accomplishments give rise to many benefits and a few burdens. One of the burdens, we submit, is having to see himself depicted in words and pictures by people who have things to say about him."
In any case, the District Court judge agreed with my interpretation.
To me this lawsuit shows that Tiger cares more about making a shitload of money than about his fans. If some guy wants to paint a picture honoring your victory, and your fans want to hang copies on their walls, you’re a jerk to get pissed off that you’re not making more money.
One more for the tool list:
Tiger chews tobacco. He’s not to discriminate about where he spits. (I guess the network TV guys change shots before he “shoots”.) He’s actually gotten kicked out of A-list restaurants and clubs because he spits on the carpets.
I disagree. The First Amendment is there to prevent people from being silenced. It is NOT there to help people make a buck. If the artist painted a picture and displayed it, then Tiger would not have a reason to complain. It is the commercialism behind it that Tiger objects to.
There is a product here that Tiger does not wish to endorse, the lithographs and posters. You are acting as if these items are incidental to the issue, but they are the centerpoint of the issue.
You act as if the artist created this as an homage to Tiger. This entire venture was a way for the artist to make money, it has nothing to do with honoring Tiger. I suppose the hundreds of thousands of dollars the artist will pull in was an afterthought, right?
I can see it now, the artist says to himself “I’d like to create a lovely painting to honor Tiger’s win at the Masters.” “Gee, this is a pretty good painting, maybe someone else will want to own it.” “You know, that company I own which prints lithographs and posters of my paintings might be able to do that with THIS painting too…” “What a lovely idea, it might just work.” Nonsense, the entire point of the painting was to line the artist’s pockets with money, honoring Tiger had nothing to do with it.