"Travelnoids"

I’m just finishing up a great trip to the Canyonlands of West Texas and have a few observations I’d like to share and get comment on – Andy Rooney style :)

So why do hotels put the ice machines near the office instead of on each floor near the other vending machines? Really now – we are paying some outrageous amount of money plus some inflated amount of service tax to sleep in a mite-infested bed for a few hours and you need to police how much ice we take? Are the ice machines really so lame that if I take a bag of ice and 5 others take a bag of ice that the ice machine will no longer be fertile? What’s up with this tradition? Why do you make us feel like we are stealing something from you? Why not sell bags of ice at the front desk as a convenience if this is a problem vs making us spend more money on gas hunting down a bag of ice than the $2 bag of ice is worth?

Why do most of the gas stations in New Mexico make you come into the store to get your gas receipt? The obvious is that they want you to come in and buy some of their junk food. For those of us that eat healthy you aren’t going to make a sale either way – you are just going to piss us off because we have to wait in line to get a piece of paper for something we already bought from you. Since the gas stations are few and far between we are likely going to come into the store anyway to use the restroom so if we were going to buy some junk food, we are already parading down those aisles to find the relief station and are probably having to stare at the processed food while we wait for the person in front of us to finish bathing themselves or doing whatever it takes them forever to do in those “rest rooms”… One of the restrooms in TX had a sign on the door: "Women Only - the Mens room is outside." And once you were in the room it had a sign above the stool that said "You Are In The Ladies Room" - love to know the story behind this issue! Is it a translation problem?

What is your favorite travelnoid? Inquiring minds wanna know!