The Death of the Hotel Message

[Tux Toledo]

I just wrote a blog lamenting the death of the hotel message:

http://www.thelovablerogue.com/page3.html

I'm going to miss them. How about you?

 

[GHT]

Forgive me for being irreverent, but the image that I got from your thread, I just had to share:
[video=youtube;fUxR965b4LU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUxR965b4LU[/video]

 

[HudsonHawk]

Alright admit it...how many of you did a double take when you first read the title as "The Death of the Hotel Massage"?

 

[jamespowers]

Alright admit it...how many of you did a double take when you first read the title as "The Death of the Hotel Massage"?

Ok, how many times have you had that done? lol lol

 

[Stray Cat]

I'm going to miss them. How about you?

I have never had the chance of receiving one such message, but I did got written notes of other kind.. You're not at home (mostly, since I was a youngster back then, I was out and about, and my parents *fortunately for both sides* had no idea what was I about). When I came back home, there could be a message, from a friend. That was normal - they come, my parents (or grandparents), without wanting to be rude, simply ask s there a message, and pass them a piece of paper.
It was also quite educational - on the long summer holidays, one could easily forget how to write. Mom being a teacher, could not lat that happen, right?
..
No one leaves messages like that any more.
They just text "Where are you?!". Sadly, this means: I can no longer be "out and about" without anyone knowing what I'm about. lol

I just had to share

"Mango likes candy".
What happened to "don't take candies from strangers"?

 

[dh66]

Alright admit it...how many of you did a double take when you first read the title as "The Death of the Hotel Massage"?

Not to run the train off the track any worse, but, yeah - that's what I read at the first glance. Probably need an upgrade to my prescription. I have never had any experience getting a hotel message, I'll admit (although, after reading the blog post, I wish I had) but I can remember a time when every hotel/motel room up and down the gulf coast came equipped with those coin operated " magic fingers" vibrating beds. I can't remember the last time I saw one of those. Unlike J.P., that's what immediately popped into my mind. Different coasts, I guess.
Apologies to the original poster. I'm sure this is NOT where you envisioned this going.

 

[jamespowers]

Not to run the train off the track any worse, but, yeah - that's what I read at the first glance. Probably need an upgrade to my prescription. I have never had any experience getting a hotel message, I'll admit (although, after reading the blog post, I wish I had) but I can remember a time when every hotel/motel room up and down the gulf coast came equipped with those coin operated " magic fingers" vibrating beds. I can't remember the last time I saw one of those. Unlike J.P., that's what immediately popped into my mind. Different coasts, I guess.
Apologies to the original poster. I'm sure this is NOT where you envisioned this going.

Magic Fingers! :rofl: Riiiiggghhhttt....

 

[Tux Toledo]

Apologies to the original poster. I'm sure this is NOT where you envisioned this going.

No it wasn't, but hey, these things take on a life of their own.

 

[MikeKardec]

It seems to me that there was a period when the hotel lobby was dominant as a meeting place, even for people who weren't staying in the hotel. It also seems the same era was when a lot of single men lived in hotels full time. My uncle did, up til the 1950s. He was a reporter and worked hours that made housekeeping impractical. Anyway, the lobby and hotel restaurant and bar were "the center of town" for a certain sort of person. I still use an old hotel that way in a small town I frequently visit. I used to stay there but now it's just a convenient meeting or waiting place.

I haven't seen a lobby boy or bell hop deliver a message to a patron in a hotel lobby since I was a kid ... until 2 weeks ago. I was staying in the Hotel Adlon in Berlin (rebuilt in grand style post reunification) and saw a mysterious eastern European man delivered a message by one of their "lobby boys" (a very attractive young lady actually). Rather than being something out of a James Bond novel it definitely felt more like John Le Carre or Alan Furst!

But then that is the sort of thing that is supposed to happen at the Adlon!

 

[sheeplady]

I've had messages left for me when I checked into hotels. Typically I was arriving for a conference and colleagues had left me messages. "I'm in room 201." "We're meeting for dinner at 6pm, restaurant x." That sort of thing.

 

[Atticus Finch]

I sure as heck misread the title. I was thinking of all the hotel massages I prosecuted back when I was running District Court. Was feeling sorry they had died.

AF

 

[Apmann]

I've had messages left for me when I checked into hotels. Typically I was arriving for a conference and colleagues had left me messages. "I'm in room 201." "We're meeting for dinner at 6pm, restaurant x." That sort of thing.

I've experienced this as well. A decent hotel offers a type of service that often seems quite old fashioned, and excellent.

 

[dh66]

I sure as heck misread the title. I was thinking of all the hotel massages I prosecuted back when I was running District Court. Was feeling sorry they had died.

AF

http://youtu.be/YHFE6WZK71s

 

[scotrace]

A message left for me at a hotel once changed my entire life on a dime.

 

[Matt Crunk]

. . . I can remember a time when every hotel/motel room up and down the gulf coast came equipped with those coin operated " magic fingers" vibrating beds. I can't remember the last time I saw one of those.

As I recall, East Side Motel in Gatlinburg, TN still had them in some rooms last time we were there. As recently as a few years ago you could still find them at cheap mom & pop motels all over the South.

 

[bond_323]

I'm envisioning all those messages being perused by another long-gone feature of hotels, the house detective!

 

[jamespowers]

A message left for me at a hotel once changed my entire life on a dime.

A massage changed your entire life?!

 

[sheeplady]

A message left for me at a hotel once changed my entire life on a dime.

You can't leave a one liner like that- it's unfair.