Comments on: About the towels, we forgive you

About the towels, we forgive you

Mwongozi — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 17:57:40 -0800

Ever nicked a towel from a Holiday Inn? Holiday Inn say: "About the towels, we forgive you."

By: Space Coyote

Space Coyote — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 18:08:53 -0800

About you guys jacking up your prices in Montreal on Grand Prix weekend to twice the normal price? I don't forgive you. So I'm keeping my fucking towel, thanks, I'm sure you'll live.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 18:12:26 -0800

um, about that cockroach...

By: KevinSkomsvold

KevinSkomsvold — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 18:14:10 -0800

..and that desk clerk with one pupil larger than the other and smelling of alcohol...

By: swerve

swerve — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 18:19:49 -0800

Terry: I know everything that's happening in my hotels. Danny: So I should put the towels back? /Ocean's Eleven

By: Jimbob

Jimbob — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 18:21:35 -0800

This sounds like The Onion, but it looks legit. Somehow, this seems totally hilarious, in an era where most corporations have lost the ability to laugh at themselves. But I'm more of a soap, sugar and instant coffee man myself.

By: shadow45

shadow45 — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 18:22:55 -0800

in southern florida, hotel steal from you!!

By: KevinSkomsvold

KevinSkomsvold — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 18:25:50 -0800

So you can contact them with your stolen towel stories AND provide them with enough information for the Holiday Inn S.W.A.T. team to swoop in and recover their towels? You'll have to pry my towel from my cold, dead, washed hands.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 18:26:15 -0800

By: quonsar

quonsar — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 18:51:07 -0800

oh shit, quonsar beat me to it.

By: DBAPaul

DBAPaul — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 18:59:21 -0800

Is there ANY part of the world in which Towel Amnesty Day August 28th 2003 has not already taken place? Just wondering. Perhaps there is and it somehow explains quonsar's two recent posts.

By: vito90

vito90 — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 19:13:47 -0800

I never steal their towels, but I always make sure to soil each and every one provided. Some of those fuckers are leaning up against the wall like a surfboard by the time I'm done with them. It's every bit as satisfying as stealing them.

By: camworld

camworld — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 19:21:31 -0800

For $200-$250 a night I'd better be able to wipe my ass with those towels and not get charged a cleaning fee.

By: rough ashlar

rough ashlar — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 19:30:44 -0800

When Douglas Adams comes back, they can get their towel.

By: carfilhiot

carfilhiot — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 20:00:16 -0800

I never steal their towels, but I always make sure to soil each and every one provided. erm.. ok. I'm curious, as a person who's never stolen a towel before. what do you do with a stolen towel. use it in your home? don't your friends think that's kinda tacky? or am i just a snob?

By: quonsar

quonsar — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 20:29:07 -0800

i gots me a special wrench fer stealin them tv sets.

By: squirrel

squirrel — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 20:29:29 -0800

Cut 'em up, they make great cleaning rags. In other news, Taco Bell has announced an amnesty on those extra "Fire" sauce packets you nicked.

By: Keyser Soze

Keyser Soze — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 20:59:49 -0800

Can someone help me devise a program that will fill the towel story thing with fake info, effectively giving money out for the kids?

By: mcsweetie

mcsweetie — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 21:31:37 -0800

I always leave taco bell with my pockets full of straws.

By: waldo

waldo — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 22:00:39 -0800

I like to steal the beds. I mean, they're a large company, so I figure it's OK.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 22:05:06 -0800

i steal the 'do not remove this tag under penalty of law' mattress tags so they have to throw the beds out.

By: jonson

jonson — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 22:07:03 -0800

I'm 100% with Vito90 on this one. Every fucking towel gets used when I'm at a hotel. I save the smallest one exclusively for drying the old sac.

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 22:23:51 -0800

"I save the smallest one exclusively for drying the old sac." I always have to call the front desk and have them send up more jumbo-sized towels for that.

By: Sirius

Sirius — Mon, 01 Sep 2003 01:43:40 -0800

I always have to call the front desk and have them send up more jumbo-sized towels for that. "I don't feel any pain, but it is uncomfortable and I do notice how heavy it is to carry around"

By: arto

arto — Mon, 01 Sep 2003 02:25:57 -0800

Johnny Fever: Don't you people get it? It's the towel cops!! Andy: There is no such thing as towel cops! Johnny: Oh sure. Cover for them.

By: jack_mo

jack_mo — Mon, 01 Sep 2003 05:41:55 -0800

Whenever I stay in a hotel, I take the hand towel stolen from the previous hotel with me and leave it there, and nick a new one that will stay with me until the next hotel, and so on... Er, dunno why I started doing that, but it's fun. Of sorts.

By: JanetLand

JanetLand — Mon, 01 Sep 2003 06:22:55 -0800

Guess nobody here has ever had the revolting job of cleaning up hotel rooms after people check out.

By: ursus_comiter

ursus_comiter — Mon, 01 Sep 2003 10:09:14 -0800

No, but Woody Guthrie did: A bloody flood could never messed these rooms up any worse It looked like Moe had used this room to grease and breed a horse Old gum and hairs and sticky rags, old bottles on the floors Gobs of spit and condom rubbers on the windows, walls and doors

By: Leonard

Leonard — Mon, 01 Sep 2003 10:10:39 -0800

JanetLand's got a point. I actually make a tiny effort to be a low impact as I can on hotel rooms. Nothing crazy, but there's no need to make life suck that much more for whichever underpaid overworked individual has to clean it up later.

By: oh posey

oh posey — Mon, 01 Sep 2003 10:39:44 -0800

JanetLand's got a point. Oh I agree. One time at a Holiday Inn located in Colorado Springs I used one of their handtowels to pick up a little piece of dried up dog do-do from the sexy shag carperting that the so-called cleaning staff had let lay there for a long long time.

By: JanetLand

JanetLand — Mon, 01 Sep 2003 13:35:16 -0800

At least you didn't steal the towel. :)

By: GT_RULES

GT_RULES — Mon, 01 Sep 2003 18:13:55 -0800

That would make the hand towel like this story... full of...