Posted on 11/11/2007 7:36:33 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
My wife did a summer in college cleaning hotel rooms. The first thing she does in any room is strip off the bed spread.
Holiday Inn Express has but recently started making their beds by enclosing a blanket between two flat sheets with everything being washed between guests. This setup has taken the place of a bedspread. They were gradually implementing this throughout their chain. Makes me feel a little better about staying there, anyway.
My Mom worked for a while cleaning hotel rooms to make some extra money. You are right - some of the things she found in those rooms can’t be posted on this forum.
So, you think the one can comparatively replace the other?
Came across this bit of trivia while looking up stuff about the Gideons:
“On Christmas Eve 1968, the astronauts of the Apollo 8 mission read from the first part of Genesis during a live television broadcast from lunar orbit. A Japanese correspondent staying at a Houston hotel while covering the mission called NASA Public Affairs to request a copy of the speech that the astronauts were reading. The Public Affairs official asked where he was staying and then told him that if he opened the desk drawer in his room he would find a book and that he should open it to page one. The reporter found the Gideon Bible and later reported that “NASA Public Affairs is very efficient - they had a mission transcript waiting in my hotel room.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideons_International
>>Yes, next there will be a prayer rug rolled up in the drawer along with a copy of the Koran (sp?) and the Communist Manifesto....<<
Its sounds like what they are trying to avoid. If their clientel in New York city has a lot of non-Christians and they provide Bibles I can see where they would get a lot of grief for non providing for other religions.
>>What a disgusting and wretched trend. I fear we are just about where the Roman Empire was in A.D. 409.<<
I’ve know some Gideons. They used to come through town where my Grand Daddy had been preacher and where I still hung around the church with the new preacher (we were both model rail roaders)
The first time I met a Gideon, I was all excited - I thought he would give me a Bible. I had a dozen Bibles but not a Gideon Bible.
Turns out he didn’t give out Bibles - he sold Bibles to small churches that he then promised to place in motels. They were kind of over priced and talking to him he wasn’t particularly religious.
He was a Bible salesman. Not that there is anything wrong with that.
But I don’t see where one particular type of business has more obligation than others to work with this particular religious group.
You seriously do not want to know.
Although it is a TV show, a CSI episode once said that the average hotel bedspread will have over 100 unique DNA samples on it. I then asked a friend who worked for a very respected, very well known hotel chain in the laundry department, and she told me that bedspreads are not routinely washed. All other linens were but the bedspreads (unless obviously soiled) were only washed on a rotating basis. I got, from her, the impression that this was industry standard.
This is sad. No one is forced to read that bible in the drawer, so it sure isn’t hurting anyone. I have heard anecdotes where the bible did some good, i.e. someone who was planning to commit suicide who found that bible in the drawer and ended up not doing so.
My Mom was an executive housekeeper at 4 Diamond resort and more than once I had to help out during racing season in Saratoga when she didn’t have enough employees show up for work.
Bedspreads, mattress pads and blankets were not washed unless soiled. Look at a maid’s cart and you only see sheets and towels and maybe a spare bedspread or blanket. Keeping enough good employees was a big problem. Some were let go for not changing sheets and got caught in one case because the previous guest had wet the bed.
At least the experience makes me aware of how clean a hotel room really is. It was an eye opener listening to others pass on “cheats” on how to make a carpet look vacuumed and where you can save time cleaning a bathroom.
It is very hard work and some do a great job but it is like sleeping with strangers! I always wondered about the pillows, so many people drool in their sleep.
>>They’re almost giddy with celebration that hotel rooms now feature sex toys and lewd “adult” games instead of Bibles!<<
yes, that tone was very irritating.
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