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Cait from Bristol but currently in Orlando got a little wild in her hotel room and now is suffering the shame that inevitably follows:
I am staying in a hotel and have just accidentally got chocolate all over the white bed sheets. Unfortunately, the chocolate looks a lot like I’ve shat myself.
So please answer me this: do I leave housekeeping a note explaining that it’s chocolate and not shit? Do I do nothing and let them think I pooed the bed? Or something else?
It’s so delightfully British of you, Cait, to think of leaving a note! If it makes you feel better, by all means do that – or leave the chocolate wrapper in the bed as an indicator of what has gone on in there (NB also a useful cover in the event of you actually shitting the bed).
However I imagine that the average hotel housekeeper has far too many rooms to clean to spend much time analysing your suspicious-looking stains, or sniffing them to ascertain their origin, or sending off a sample for lab testing. Moreover, they will have surely seen so many scenes of filth and degradation during their careers that your little one-woman scat party would barely warrant an eyebrow-raise.
Readers, what do you think?
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Tags: chocolate, embarrassment, excrement, hotels, oops!, scat, yuk
July 1, 2012 at 10:13 am |
Leave a tip!
June 20, 2012 at 8:40 pm |
Leave an empty chocolate wrapper in the bed next to the stain.
June 20, 2012 at 4:29 pm |
just leave an extra couple of dollars tip – they will appreciate it much more than a note, and lets face it they are just going to pull the sheets off and put them in a sack either way. It’s no big deal to them.
June 20, 2012 at 1:31 pm |
Surely the note will help somewhat dispense the moment of trepidation when one thinks, “Oh god, is that feces or chocolate?” That has to be worth something. Unless you have a deeply wounded housekeeper who’s been tricked that way before…
June 20, 2012 at 10:11 am |
I think you’d be fine not to leave it, but why not do it anyway? No harm, and even if the housekeepers think that you’re naive to leave a note, I bet it’d give them a smile.
June 20, 2012 at 9:29 am |
Surely the lack of a smell would give it away….
June 20, 2012 at 9:20 am |
Having worked in a hotel I can tell you maids know instantly if it’s poo or chocolate! They’ve seen it all. No need to say or do anything!