Two questionable features in a room at the Quality Inn in Twin Falls

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When I travel there often is something new to discover that might be used as material for a humorous speech On May 17 th I drove to Twin Falls, Idaho to attend the District 15 Toastmasters Conference. I previously blogged about my workshop presentation titled Creating or Finding Great Table Topics Questions.

 

I stayed for two nights at the Quality Inn & Suites at 1910 Fillmore Street, near the Costco. When I checked in, they asked me if I was OK with getting a room on the second floor of the two-floor Building B - which did not have an elevator. I was, since my luggage just was a small overnight suitcase and a briefcase. If I had our large wheeled suitcase, then I instead would have asked for a room in the three-floor Building A, which does have an elevator.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Usually when you flip on the light switch near the front door of a motel room it turns on a ceiling light nearby (such as at the location shown by a dashed green circle). But for my room that light (circled in red) instead was at the back, only three feet from the window. The nearest light to the front door was the table lamp on a night stand to the left of the king-size bed. It did not illuminate the area where the closet rod was.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When I first entered my room, I also noticed that the top drawer of the dresser beneath the television was open about four inches (as shown above). I assumed the maid had left it that way, after checking that the last guest hadn’t left anything behind. I closed it, since it was something to stumble over. But when I woke the next morning I found it had opened again. I suspect that rather than a poltergeist the slides for that drawer had been attached with a slight tilt.   

   

Other than that dresser, and not being well-lit at the front, the room was clean and just fine. And the free breakfast buffet in Building A was quite good.

 

When I mentioned the lighting to another conference attendee, they remarked that the motel name just was Quality Inn, not High-Quality Inn. On The Simpsons there once was a Low-Quality Inn.

 

Coincidentally the Pearls Before Swine comic strip for May 18, 2024, titled A Hotel Room Conundrum, had the following dialogue:

 

Front Desk Clerk: Hotel front desk.

 

Rat: Yeah, I just woke up from a nap. The whole room is dark. I managed to find a light switch, but nothing happened.

 

Front Desk Clerk: Yeah, that’s cause you have to put your card key in the little slot marked ‘MASTER’ by the room door.

 

Rat: How am I supposed to find my key and the card slot in a dark room?

 

Front Desk Clerk: By first bumping into a whole bunch of @###.

 

Rat: Actually happened to me.

 

Goat: God bless that hotel clerk.

 

Cruise ships do this to help save energy. There is a one-minute YouTube video from Vacation Impossible titled Carnival Cruise Tip – Stateroom Lights Not Working which explains that really any card will work, not just the Sail and Sign magnetic one.