Re:Hotel safety tips from a former intelligence officer
by graderjs on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @03:29AM
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I normally just verbally ask staff, "can you just write my room number down and not say the floor out loud." I don't want random people who happen to be around the front desk counter at the same time knowing what room I'm in... come on.
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Re:Hotel safety tips from a former intelligence officer
by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @12:54PM
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It's been a long time since I've been at a hotel that spoke my room number aloud. I haven't had to ask.
Re:Hotel safety tips from a former intelligence officer
by graderjs on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @10:12PM
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Oh yeah? It's been a long time since I've stayed in a hotel. Pandemic. They say it. They pretty consistently say the floor too. I guess we travel different places. Better to be safe tho. Once they say it you can't put it back in.
Maybe you don't travel that much?
Re:Hotel safety tips from a former intelligence officer
by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @10:34PM
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Well, no, I don't travel that much, but in the last three years I've probably stayed at 15 different places. I don't recall any of them saying the room number out loud. (Not a statistically valid sample, and all that...)
Re:Hotel safety tips from a former intelligence officer
by graderjs on Thursday September 22, 2022 @01:18AM
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3 years 15 different different places. That's quite a lot, especially during pandemic. About the same as me.
You may not have been paying attention. I think people don't think about these things because they don't think it's important. It's hard to remember something that you don't care about.
Re:Hotel safety tips from a former intelligence officer
by AnimalMuppet on Friday September 23, 2022 @07:13PM
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No, I notice, because I find it a bit jarring. When I was a kid, they'd tell you your room number. Now they write it down and slide the paper at me, and I notice that.