Monday, October 4, 2010

Honestly, I'm not downloading porn. Honestly.

I've spent a lot of time in hotels this last month. I don't generally mind hotel life--somebody makes your bed every day, cleans the bathroom, leaves fresh towels. If you're in a really nice hotel, maybe you get a piece of chocolate on your pillow every night. It's not a bad life.

But I've noticed a few things about hotels lately. What is this thing with the little lights all over the room? In the room we're in this week, there's at least half a dozen lights that can't be turned off. There are two lights on the smoke alarm; the switch for the light above the room door has a night-light; the phone has a light. Even the table lamp has a glowing on/off switch. You could land an airplane with the light from the alarm clock. Every night I cover as many of them as possible, and every day when housekeeping does their thing, they move all the little pieces of paper and what nots I've used to cover the lights so I can sleep. I'm thinking I'll carry a roll of duct tape in my luggage.


I also have a problem with the so-called high speed internet access I've been stuck with. High speed my ass. Dial-up couldn't be slower. It's not as if I'm downloading porn, people. I just want to check my email, read some blogs, post to my own blog. Seriously. IT'S NOT PORN.

The conference DH is attending here in London, Ontario has kept us pretty busy, but I did manage to find time to get to a yarn shop. If I don't end up in the slammer for threatening somebody over the crappy internet access, I'll post them something about it in a day or two. Do they have wireless access in Canadian jails?

7 comments:

  1. We had the opposite problem in our last hotel. NO lights at night --- the alarm clock didn't even have a light. I really wanted to see what time it was while I couldn't sleep. LOL

    The light switches were those teeny-tiny push things --- but, no light to find them.

    However, the internet was JUST like yours. I wanted to pull my hair out.

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  2. Hi, don't get so frustrated. It's a hotel and a hotel room. That is all you can expect. I hate hotels. Germ rooms.
    Ear plugs, disinfection spray, linens from home, my pillow (has to be thrown away afterward),..... You don't want to hear the list I come up with.
    Internet is not even on the list yet.

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  3. Ahhh...hotel living. Tell me about it!

    Did you get some yarn? Cannot wait to see it :)

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  4. The bail money is low, take caution!

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  5. I spent all my bail money on yarn! Do you think they'd take yarn instead? Maybe Jody and I can pool our resources. lol.
    Can't wait to see what new yarn you got.

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  6. I have issues with hotels too. I stayed in many many of them for about 10 years. I got really weird about bathroom corners. You don't really want to look in most places.

    I am glad you got to go to a yarn shop. Looking forward to seeing what you found!

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  7. I try not to think about the hygienic aspects of hotel stays and just enjoy that someone else is doing the work. I hope your lousy internet access is at least FREE lousy internet access... it's hard for me to understand why some places charge $10/day to borrow their internet signals.

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