doodledee

Some people at work are traveling this week. A couple of them came back late this afternoon and we got to talking about hotel rooms and what it's like to 'live' in them for longer periods of time.

This one dude mentioned that the first thing he does when he moves into a room is to take the bedspread off the bed. He claimed it while it's the law that hotels have to wash the sheets everyday, they don't legally have to wash the rest of the bedding. As a result, the bedspreads rarely - if ever - get washed.

What he was basically saying is that hotel bedspreads are warm, fuzzy, petri dishes that cultivate bacteria from the last 100 or so guests who slept in the bed you're about to sleep in. Eww?

At first I thought he was just a fancy-boy who was too good for hotel blankets, but now that I've thought about it a little bit, I think he may be on to something. It's not like I roll myself into a blanket burrito when I stay in a hotel, but now I'm thinking I don't even want to touch the things.

Next time I stay in a hotel, I'm gonna bring some Tide so I can wash the bedspread in the tub before using it. That'll be fun for all kinds of reasons.