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Why do so many people hide adult-oriented magazines behind drawers in hotel rooms?

Old Sep 19, 2005, 8:09 pm
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sorry, but I'm too sleep to go back and see who mentioned the false ceiling in hotel bathroom...

YES, I once found a wallet in there... don't ask me what I was looking in there for... the wallet had no IDs no credit cards, but contained a few one dollar bills...

The only conclusion I could draw was that the wallet and its owner went to a strip joing.... oh well..... I took the one dollar bills out and left it for the maid... yes, yest, I know it's kind of cheap, but I didn't want the bills in my own pocket or wallet...
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Old Sep 19, 2005, 8:27 pm
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Originally Posted by tgw
Checked out of a hotel last week where I overheard a woman IRATE at the desk agent because her 12-year-old son found adult magazines shoved under his rollaway bed while she was out of the room. .


". . . found them under the bed".




Yeah, that's probably what I would have told my mom when I was 12 too.

A buck says the porn belonged to the kid.



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Old Sep 19, 2005, 10:44 pm
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Wow. Now I know why Starwood Lurker said it is part of housekeeping's responsibilities to check under the mattress and even in the Bible for porn.
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Old Sep 19, 2005, 10:45 pm
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Originally Posted by tgw
Checked out of a hotel last week where I overheard a woman IRATE at the desk agent because her 12-year-old son found adult magazines shoved under his rollaway bed while she was out of the room...
I can understand shoved under a permanent bed, especially if they're far enough in for normal vacuuming to miss them, but under a roll-away? That they presumably brought in for the kid, so it wasn't in the room for the previous guest? Sorry, but that does not sound like the hotel's fault.
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Old Sep 19, 2005, 11:36 pm
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Originally Posted by Efrem
I can understand shoved under a permanent bed, especially if they're far enough in for normal vacuuming to miss them, but under a roll-away? That they presumably brought in for the kid, so it wasn't in the room for the previous guest? Sorry, but that does not sound like the hotel's fault.
After our recent experience with hotel roll-away beds, I can easily believe a kid found something inside one. At the Sacramento Red Lion, the roll-away bed is no longer a folding cot, but instead is twin bed on a very low, solid platform with wheels on one end. The mattress, sheets and pillow are strapped on to the platform, and the staff tips it up and rolls it into your room. My son found a key (metal, not card key) underneath his mattress. Would have been plenty of room to hide a magazine without the maid's hands accidently touching it when the bed was made, and the straps would have kept it secure.
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Old Sep 19, 2005, 11:40 pm
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Well, I am checking the drawers and in the mattress here at the hotel, and can't find anything
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Old Sep 20, 2005, 6:04 am
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Originally Posted by jfe
Well, I am checking the drawers and in the mattress here at the hotel, and can't find anything
No luck here either. I checked into a Hampton Inn and checked behind all the drawers. Nothing. Maybe hotel management is on to the gig now.
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Old Sep 20, 2005, 6:14 am
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Originally Posted by chartreuse
In an old episode of CSI, Elizabeth said to Grissom (while using the black light in a hotel room) "That's why I never stay in a hotel without bringing Nonoxyl-9".
Or, for those of us with slightly different television viewing habits, from an episode of Family Guy -

Lois: *commenting on hotel room* Wow, it's so clean.
Stewie: I think the ultra-violet scanning ray will be the judge of that. I picked this up on dateline from that yummy exoskeleton Maria Shriver.
Just as I expected. Oatmeal... Spittle... Semen!?!?!?
Oh, this must be where Wilford Brimley was strangeled by Bob Crane.
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Old Sep 20, 2005, 7:45 am
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Originally Posted by CDTraveler
After our recent experience with hotel roll-away beds, I can easily believe a kid found something inside one. At the Sacramento Red Lion, the roll-away bed is no longer a folding cot, but instead is twin bed on a very low, solid platform with wheels on one end. The mattress, sheets and pillow are strapped on to the platform, and the staff tips it up and rolls it into your room. My son found a key (metal, not card key) underneath his mattress. Would have been plenty of room to hide a magazine without the maid's hands accidently touching it when the bed was made, and the straps would have kept it secure.
I took "shoved under his rollaway bed" to mean under the bed - that is, on the floor. I suppose it could have been supposed to mean "between the mattress and the frame," but that's not what it says. I've never seen the kind of bed described here - only the folding one where anything under the mattress would be easily seen as the bed was being moved - but it sounds like an improvement from the sleeper's point of view!
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Old Sep 21, 2005, 9:48 am
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FYI: The hotel that I've found the most magazines
is theLAX airport Hilton. I'm guessing it's due to
the fact that there's a strip club / adult bookstore
just down the block from the hotel...
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Old Sep 21, 2005, 10:52 am
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Originally Posted by barefootflying
FYI: The hotel that I've found the most magazines
is theLAX airport Hilton. I'm guessing it's due to
the fact that there's a strip club / adult bookstore
just down the block from the hotel...
Ah, so that's the trick (so to speak)...stay at a hotel near a strip club and/or adult bookstore! LOL!
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Old Oct 9, 2005, 9:55 pm
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can you get a type of disease from touching one of those mags if the previous person had a disease?
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Old Oct 9, 2005, 10:35 pm
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Originally Posted by 777heavy
can you get a type of disease from touching one of those mags if the previous person had a disease?
Of course. In the same way as you can get a disease by touching the door knob, the telephone, the desk, the shower courtain etc if someone with a disease has touched them before. Unlikely, but possible. That's why you should wash your hands regularly, especially before touching more sensitive parts of your body (think 'wash hands before eating' in case you're thoughts are drifting; your hands are usually quite well protected by skin).

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Old Oct 9, 2005, 10:59 pm
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Originally Posted by 777heavy
can you get a type of disease from touching one of those mags if the previous person had a disease?
Depends what you touch it with.



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Old Oct 18, 2005, 7:49 pm
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OMG I just removed the bottom drawer in my Hampton.

7 things are there:

1 plastic action toy
1 container of secret deoderant
1 small plastic bag of something... candy, hairbands?? I don't know, I'm not touching anything
1 large piece of paper with hotel addresses written on it
1 JC Penney clothes tag, size small, $17.99
1 receipt
1 book of matches



I'm not looking between the mattress and box spring
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