Yes, I know. I used to do that quite often when I was staying in a motel every night, where I would rarely have housekeeping do anything in my room, knowing how hard they work as it is.
Yes, I know. Like I said, I'm intimately familiar with these machines.
Correct. One doesn't need to talk to every hotel owner, manager and employee to know what's going on in the hospitality industry. All you have to do is talk with enough of them, and be observant. It akin to the gas stations squawking about the insanely high price of having to convert their fuel pumps to dispense temperature compensated fuel, when the reality is that fuel pumps are routinely replaced anyway. They quote the cost of a new pump, as if they need to install a new pump where they would otherwise not do so, not accounting for the fact that all they have to do the next time the replace a pump would be to replace it with a temperature compensated pump, which costs very little above a non-compensated pump, and with some types of pumps there is no cost difference at all. Canada proved that without question. So the ridiculous numbers tossed out by the gas station owners, just like the ridiculous numbers tossed out by the hotel owners, are just that, ridiculous and not to be believed, especially when a little common sense and intelligence confirms just how ridiculous they are.
It's not yours, either. Unless you get a motel room.
