Saturday, January 11, 2014

Shocker: This Nightstand and Other Hotel Room Drawers


What is this?

This is a photograph of the drawer in the nightstand next to my bed at the Embassy Suites in Herndon, VA.* When opened, the drawer in the other nightstand looked the same. So did every other drawer in the suite -- in the desks, the dressers, and by the kitchenette. Empty.

I know all these drawers were all empty because I opened all of them. Very empirically rigorous of me, dontcha think?

If I hadn't already been sitting on the bed when I opened the first drawer, I probably would have sat myself down hard. As it was, I felt a bit stunned and then a bit sad. Was this an anomaly or the way things are these days? Was I looking at some kind of regional something? A hotel chain policy?

What is this?

This a photograph of the drawer in the nightstand next to my bed at the Embassy Suites in Herndon, VA. Tell me, do you see what I didn't see?

*Big thanks to the staff at the Alexandra and Arlington Districts of the United Methodist Church who invited me to deliver a social media training workshop during the Bi-District Training Day.