Did you really need 700 words to tell the world that you don’t like reusing your fucking hotel sheets?
(And before you commenters start calling me an ecofascist, let me note that the commenters at Slate agree with me.)
Dear Jill Pellettieri at Slate:
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I agree, that article was fucking annoying. She strikes me as the type that would get histrionic about a 20 cent bag tax. If you’re going to make a long complaint, either have a good reason, or make it funny.
So when most the comm enters here tell you that you’re a clueless twat on a subject, are you going to accept an appeal to the masses that you’re wrong? I don’t think you ever would. Ever.
I agree, in this one case you are being a bit of an eco-fascist.
Look, you’re in a hotel. Unless you chose one that says they only make your bed and change your sheets when you ask for it, one assumes they change them.
Why?
Because hotels are for sexy sexy fun.
And drunken parties.
Or at least they should be …
Gotta go with you on this one. Nobody’s making her feel guilty; that’s on her. A little awareness is a good thing. But that doesn’t mean I feel shame if I decide, for whatever reason, that I’d like a clean set of sheets.
Loads of companies are going to be cashing in on saving the planet. That’s where a lot of the innovation is going to come from. Get used to it.
Fuck you Will, and fuck Canada too.
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You? An ecofascist? I can’t understand why anyone would think that.
Yeah, I’m with Erica on this one. Nobody can “make” you feel guilty anyhow…
“let me note that the commenters at Slate agree with me.”
Right. And anonymous internet commenters represent the voice of reason.
I mean, just look at CNN’s Ticker or any story on Fox News for examples of the intelligence of the masses.
I only use bath towels at home once, and then in the laundry they go.
And I was my sheets after fucking. So, yeah, I’d ask a hotel to launder my fucking sheets too.
StC – do you save your toe nail clippings in plastic baggies, too?
That article embodies all that I dislike about slate
What, does she shit the bed or something?
@10 for the nailing it win.
What the fuck is wrong with that woman? Want clean towels? Then follow the card’s instructions and voila, clean fucking towels. Don’t want them? Ditto. How on earth is a little placard making her feel guilty? What an idiot.
I’m guessing that StC doesn’t have to change the sheets that often.
It’s not like hotels refuse to wash your sheets or towels, for crying out loud. I mean, come on.
If you’re so insecure in your luxury that a little card saying “here’s how much water each washed towel uses” makes you feel overwhelmingly guilty, then suck it up.
Dear Erica C. Barnett at the Stranger:
Did you really need 39 words to tell the world that you think a fellow female journalist is being a fucking worthless hack?
Look in the mirror now and then, you shrew.
One has to wonder why ECB spends more time attacking female journalists than males. I mean, last time I checked most journalists were male …
Hmm.
Environmental activists spend years crunching numbers to convince big companies that green practices can be financially beneficial to them, then asshats like this do their best to ruin it. Fuck her and the 320 thread count sheets she insists on having washed every day.
I don’t think the concept’s worthy of 700 words, but I have to say, those hotel placards piss me off, too. Not because they make me feel guilty, but because they’re so goddamn disingenuous. They say “You’re saving the environment!” but they’re really about saving the hotel money. There’s nothing wrong with hotels trying to cut costs, but manipulation is the wrong way to go about it.
Why the hell does it matter that she’s picking on a “fellow female journalist?” The fellow female journalist is being inane and totally deserves it. Lame troll is lame.
And like… am I the only one that is okay with sleeping on sheets after sex has been had on them? (I mean, clearly my boyfriend is okay with it too, but it’s possible that we’re both disgusting pigs.) I change the sheets about once a week, have sex sometimes more than once a week. I make sure that the bed is made if guests come over so they don’t see. I follow the same protocol in hotels and just let them give me new sheets/towels after I check out, to save water. Is that horribly gross? It just seems crazy to wash them after every time, but who knows, maybe I’m a freak- this isn’t something my mom taught me.
People who wash their sheets after every time they have sex clearly aren’t having enough sex.
@21 – You are not the only one. I’d like to think you are in the majority. (Entirely scientific) Slog poll?
@22… for reals, yo!
Sex on soiled sheets? Of course, that’s what makes it soooo nasty!
If it’s going to be messy, put down a towel or something. Jesus. I don’t want to wash my sheets every day; why should the hotel have to while I’m staying there?