Are you a closet thief ?
Why do people take bathrobes and towels from hotels? Why do people take forks from restaurants?
I don't know about you, but I have a sort of obsession with stealing hotel soap! I actually creep up on the housemaid's trolley and take extra shampoos, bath creams, tea, coffee, milk, whatever!
I'm NOT a thief by nature, so why is this stuff so irresistible?
A friend once confessed to me he collected so much soap over his years of traveling that he had to stop because the basket his wife bought for him to house it all was overflowing! :D
Most hotels expect that you will take the soap. They plan on it. But there are other things that they expect you to take too, so except for the shower curtain, think about things that start with the letter "S."
• Soap.
• Shampoo.
• Shower gel.
• Shower cap.
• Sewing kit.
• Stationery.
• Shoe Shine Kits.
• Slippers.
I've had the little pots of marmalade and jam (unopened ones) off trays left in the corridors before now! And I hate the stuff!
What makes us, otherwise law abiding citizens, do this?
What is the most extraordinary object you have left an hotel with?
(Legend has it my sister and her husband once smuggled a 6' stuffed bear into the boot of their car many moons ago)!
Let's hear who has sticky fingers ...
hey novi, nother clue........we just got back fr day trip to the desert(this is an easy clue bet u'd have guessed it by now my identity that is).......woohoo
I haven't read all of the above, but in general, everything which is considered a "consumable", is yours, you have paid for it, you can take it.
Everything else, (solids) and (washables) are not yours. Like the Bible (may be the Kuran here) for example, is not yours.
Blankets from planes... are not yours.
When i first arrived, my company put me up at the Ramada for 3 nights. On my way out i wanted to take the Marhaba book which i found very handy for first timers. So i asked at the front desk, and the girls were more than happy to let me go with the book (because it is a sort of consumable, it has to be replaced after a few weeks or so...). Cheers.
for the memories, but I still can't keep my mits off the soaps and creams and shower caps! A fix is a fix :D
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The only two things I take is the pen and pad on the desk, and that's to remember the hotel, I still have all the pens and it's just nice way to remember all those experiences :-)
I'm not always right, but I'm never wrong :P - Garfield
blimey, now I KNOW I'm getting old lol
wild horses wouldn't get me to shower, dress and go out at this time of night these days.
maybe .... no, best I don't say that ;P
could be qataisun. but yes am a mind reader.
finally we go out NOW!! lol.. ok.. going to get ready...
Shukran dear.
Will keep it in my mind.
:-)))
*Create your own destiny,fighting against your dark sides,raise your
spirituality.Every day is a new day.A new life.
Keep the faith!*
be my guest
i was going to say.. but.. do you read my mind?? I feel like i know you...
Plaing Cards with some Friends,a good bottle of red wine on the table...mmhmmm,would like it tooooo.
May i join next time?
;-D
But be careful,i know some card tricks(noooo,im not a cheater)looooooooolllll.
*Create your own destiny,fighting against your dark sides,raise your
spirituality.Every day is a new day.A new life.
Keep the faith!*
sorry for short hijacking! hope your steak is great!
that's typical Lebanese
Usually at home, hmmmmm, let's say I like to be lightly dressed :D
I'm still here! Just peppering my steak courtesy of a cruet from a Tandoori Restaurant in South London hehehe
sounds soooo familiar...wow...
Poker?
Black Jack?
Strip Poker?
Do you still wear something or do you sit nude bevore the PC?
;-)))
LOL.
By the way a wonderful good morning.
:-D
*Create your own destiny,fighting against your dark sides,raise your
spirituality.Every day is a new day.A new life.
Keep the faith!*
Had friends at home, played cards and had a couple of drinks
I never ever ever ever steal or take anything..but all the above Ss are inclusive in the price....other than that I would not take something just because it's not glued or screwed.
LOL..............what about you? why are you not out? didn't u go to Orion?
good morning qatarisun
but it's ok.. they are all out anyway...LOL... tomorrow we will return it to Jauntie..lol...
i fell asleep around 8 (i was going to have a nap for about half an hour), and finally I woke around 12...:):) ..it's ok...tomorrow still fine.. what about you?
lol... qatarisun ... why are you still awake and not going out?
u scare me now... i really should?...thanks for advice.. i will go..tomorrow.. oh, no, tomorrow Friday, after tomorrow...:D
qatarisun ... go and see a doctor :D
i just cannot...i never could take anything that i think doesn't belong to me... may be i am sick? because i know that most people could and would.. and i just cannot....what a shame...:(:(
good nite spice mom ... would you mind to drop another clues please? like how many kid/s do you have? and which school do they go? and where are you from originally?
PS: By any chance does your birthday 21st of November?
ah novi another clue u are the first friend i had in doha when i arrived some 3 yrs and 3.5 mths ago.........enough clue for today....... gonna hit the sack now early day tomorrow -gonna go........(lets save this clue for tomorrow-winks) good night till then tata
just love those little jars or hand lotions, foot creams and lip balm fr the hotel in johannesburg.......heheheheehhe(guilty i am )heheeeehe
seriously spicemom ... i have no idea who you are ... :D
My mum took the fruit plate being left behind on the corridor by a hotel's guest across our room in New World Hotel Kuala Lumpur. She said she hate wasting food.
hey novi, u do know who i am dont u??
hmmmm wonder wat novi's gonna take fr the hotels in finland n portugal???lol. hey novi u reading this???:O)
---> yes i am still reading this. I have no idea what to take from the hotel in Finland or Portugal ... never been to the country so don't know what to expect. :D
In another notes ... here me thinking one of the oldest member in QL ... and i just checked your profile and you registered 2 yrs 4 weeks ago ???????
let's hope she gets enough cruet sets with Santa's face on them for all of us! On second thoughts ... maybe not.
What I REALLY want is for someone to admit to leaving an hotel or a restaurant with something, as a souvenir, which they really SHOULDN'T have left with. (and I don't mean HIV !!) sheesh one has to be so careful how to phrase things these days lol
hmmmm wonder wat novi's gonna take fr the hotels in finland n portugal???lol. hey novi u reading this???:O)
I'm talking about the fact that people are obsessional about taking anything that isn't nailed down - freebees or NOT!
No, it's not stealing, I just wondered why we seem to take it when we don't NEED it! I honestly grab tea bags off the trolley in the corridor so's I can have another cup of tea (they only ever give you 2 bags) although I don't stretch to filling my pockets with the teabags to take home !!! lol
Although, the sweetex I might - but WHY. It's that something for, supposedly, nothing?
i take the slippers so guests wont have to go bare foot in my home............jhehhehehehhehehhe
Toiletries and fruit baskets are complimentary so I don't think it will qualify as stealing.
"• Soap.
• Shampoo.
• Shower gel.
• Shower cap.
• Sewing kit.
• Stationery.
• Shoe Shine Kits.
• Slippers."
---> I took all of those except the last 2. Had million of shower cup on my dressing draw. Hubby normally put his foot down after a week in Shangri-La Singapore he will ask either i take the hotel's toiletries home or more handbags / shoes.
tooth pick holder from The Mandarin Hotel, Hong Kong
But I think my pride and joy is a solid silver "Knickerbocker Glory" Sundae Spoon! which someone in my family must have knicked from a hotel in the 1930s/40s on holiday on the South Coast of England in the days before plastic spoons and 'thieves'? lol
Guess that's why plastic took over :P
i like the laundry bag from Shangri-La Hotel !!!
to find a pair of coat hangers in our luggage when we got home from our last holiday! I couldn't beLIEVE my husband had packed them! I mean it's not like you are taking anything you REALLY NEED !
OK so we may have been short of salt & pepper shakers, but not reeeeeeealy!
Same thing like being a Kleptomania... thin difference between these 2
I would rather have one rose and a kind word from a friend while I'm here
Than a whole truck load when I'm gone
because it's free!
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我听见 我忘记; 我看见 我记住; 我做 我了解。
You can't understand until you walk a mile in someone else's shoes.