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Hotel key-card poison
by brian @ 17:31:59 - [perma-link]The magentic stripe on the hotel key cards (at this hotel, anyway) have
an adverse response to me. Almost every time I've come back to my room
this trip, I've had to make an extra trip downstairs to get a new key,
becuase they stop working. Last night I left my wallet in the room so I wouldn't have an unsightly
bulge in the back of my tux ;). When my key failed, the front desk
reluctantly gave me a new key, based on an extensive quiz on my personal
information. The tux probably helped, too. Later that night, back in my
"street clothes", I again had a key fail,and the guy gave me a new key,
only after ridiculing me for never having any ID (but the joke is on
him, since now that he knows who I am, I don't really need my ID, do I
sucka!). He gave me 2 keys, just in case. Just now the guy replacing both of those warned me that they can get
erased if they come "within like a foot of a cell phone." (Good thing
travellers don't tend to carry cell phones, eh?) Now I'm carrying 4 keys, in different pockets, hoping that one of them
will get me back into my room later. Something in this system is very,
very broken. |
