The Aardvark Speaks: Hotel room

August 08, 2005

Hotel room

And then I found myself in this hotel room, and apart from the small plastic flower bouquet in a wall-mounted vase, I noticed a somewhat cheesy picture of a nude woman in blue on the wall:

As if that wasn't enough by itself, after switching on the TV, I found they had only eight channels and that CNN had such bad reception that the sound was totally garbled. Not that I really cared because I preferred ARTE anyway.

However, probably to make up for it, they had this other channel offering free semi-kinky soft porn 24 hours a day.

And I asked myself just exactly what they were expecting me to do. I mean, I knew I wasn't in that kind of hotel, or at least I was pretty sure I wasn't, but still, the whole setup looked like a rather plump invitation to masturbate.

Posted by Horst on August 8, 2005 12:32 AM to my so-called life | Tell-a-friend

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laura said on August 8, 2005 05:29 AM:

They might at least have used a Klimt reproduction. Speaking of which, have you considered giving us a review of the Leopold Museum exhibit?

mig said on August 8, 2005 08:30 AM:

Who needs an invitation?

dieter said on August 8, 2005 10:23 AM:

Well, I suppose that is only the standard service for all those business guys who spend half of their lives in Hotels far away from their beloved ones.

Natalie said on August 9, 2005 01:49 PM:

But surely that's a Barbie doll?

Horst said on August 9, 2005 07:32 PM:

Well, she looks a bit like one on the photograph, but I assure you it was an actual woman. The whole setup was laughable though. Must be rather lonely business guys who get something out of this.

antifuchs said on August 9, 2005 11:40 PM:

I'm with dieter's explanation. Take Hannover, for example: Expo happened there once; Cebit happens every year; not much else to do otherwise (besides visiting friends, which we did).

So, half of the space on the maps that the tourist info give out is covered in ads for escort services and kinky stuff. My favourite line: "Transsexuelle verwoehnen dich!"

dieter said on August 10, 2005 02:05 PM:

And, Horst, you must consider businessmen who work abroad staying in hotels for weeks or even years, seeing their families every other weekend or so. When I went through such an experience, I took up reading again, which made me regret those masses of time to read when that period finally ended.
I also went to the cinema, noticing another annoying thing there. Although it was rather easy to get into OV-presentations (try that anywhere in Austria apart from Vienna), those features were almost invariably interrupted in the middle. I really hated that.

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