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How many times have you been in a Hotel room and been woken up by the person in the next room or two down the corridor, slamming their door shut whenever s/he enters or leaves their room. Hotel rooms should have a notice on the inside face of their doors encouraging people to close their hotel room doors
quietly during the period of say 10pm – 8am. This would hopefully act as a courtesy to fellow hotel guests to allow them to sleep a little less disturbed.
I’ve been in many hotels around the world and never once have I seen a sign that encourages courtesy to fellow hotel guests.
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Try staying in a "hotel". Of course that means paying "real" money. Most of these "hotels", with more than three stars, have a pnuematic supression device... Two stars or fewer generally have rubber stoppers... |
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or like a generator on the doorhinge that operates between 10-8; close the door too fast and get a shock. |
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I notice I fell into a trap of my own making in my previous annotation. |
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"More than three stars" and "Two stars or fewer", leaves three stars unattended. |
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However it is my hypothesis that three star hotels are an undiscovered wonder of the world. Continually striving to be "more than three stars", whilst fighting the woes of two stars or fewer, on a budget that attracts both. |
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Whenever I go to a three star hotel I expect two star ammenities and service, and I am usually pleasantly surprised. Whenever I go to four star hotel I expect five star service and I am generally dissapointed. Whenever I go to a two star hotel, I expect one star service, and I am generally correct. |
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This inaccuracy of measurement is due only to my expectations. Ergo, three star and five star establishments are the only hotels to stay in...for me at least. |
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I've seen this, actually, at the Motel 6 that I stayed at in Portland
a few months ago. I've also been to a motel in Great Falls,
Montana with a sign saying not to back into parking spaces
because the exhaust from your pipes will enter the rooms where
other patrons are staying, and got yelled at by the manager
when we backed in to unload our truck. I've also seen signs
asking that you keep the TV volume low. There's plenty of signs
for fellow travellers' benefit. The problem is that they're not
standardized and people ignore them anyway. |
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There are accomodations at the same level, and with reasonable proximity to, the parking lot? Jeeves! Meet me in the foyer with the car, we have to leave... |
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Oh, I forgot to mention the angled nylon washer most good door hinges already have... |
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Dilution is the solution to pollution. If there were a steady noise of randomly slamming doors, it would serve to obscure the occasional slammed door of a real hotel patron coming or going. It would be a simple matter to create a robot arm attached to a door which would slam it with varying amounts of force. One could govern the slamming action with a decibel readout attached to an internet radio station such that the door provides a counterpoint to the bass. |
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//If there were a steady noise of randomly slamming doors, it would serve to obscure the occasional slammed door of a real hotel patron coming or going// |
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But what if none of the real patrons are slamming doors? Then they are subjected to endless door slamming noise for no reason. Better to fit some mechanism that makes the door hard to slam. |
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/But what if none of the real patrons are slamming doors? / |
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Then you do not frequent the same questionable by-the-hour hotels that Numbo does, and there is no need for any solution. |
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