Posts Tagged ‘hotel’

I was perusing around the web aimlessly just a few minutes ago, hoping to find something entertaining.  I opened up my trusty Google Reader that always brings in the freshest and best stuff (mostly because I chose it, of course) and sure enough…something leapt out at me.

Imagine, if you will, minding your own business when this headline hits you:

Cold sheets? Hire a human ‘bed-warmer’

Human ‘bed-warmer’? Upon further reading, it turns out that Holiday Inn is offering the option to have an actual person (dressed in a fleece sleeper suit, with their hair covered) to come into your room and warm your bed before you sleep. At first, I thought this was a bit of a publicity stunt. And, of course, I’m sure it is. As the article in MSNBC points out, they didn’t exactly address why this couldn’t be done with, oh, an inanimate object meant to warm things up like a hot water bottle and not a human.

Then again, I suddenly recalled a story that I read ages ago from Roald Dahl in his book, Boy. He talked about how during his days at boarding school, the upper classmen would basically pick on the younger students and make them do menial tasks. One of the tasks was toilet-seat warmer…and he happened to have one of the toastiest bottoms around.

I just have to wonder - how much would someone need to be paid to be a furniture warmer? Would it be minimum wage, or would it be a bed by bed basis?

Oh, the things you learn on the news these days.