The things we accept at face value often fall
apart when we press on them even a little.
I thought about this in all the traveling I’ve done lately. You see these little placards in hotel rooms
about all the “Earth responsible water and detergent savings” initiatives at
hotels. How it will save so much if you
hang your towels, etc. up so they can be used again. In my experience, either the hotels don’t
REALLY care, or they don’t do any follow up.
Because in what I’ve seen traveling to a lot of different places, it
doesn’t work. Your towel doesn’t get
hung up. It gets replaced with a fresh one,
and the one you hung up gets washed.
Why? I can only speculate that
the (largely) immigrants who provide maid service at many hotels—immigrants who
are poorly educated, maybe illiterate (at least for English)—are in any case a
bit overworked. So whether it’s can’t
read, won’t read, don’t have time to read, or maybe wouldn’t care if could and
did read, it’s easier to just replace the towel. But my main feeling is that if it was REALLY
important to the hotel and its management, the maids would be trained, with
follow-up.
What did you think, that they just used the
hair dryer to dry the towel so it wouldn’t feel wet when you touched it? :)
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