...and another thing

...and another thing..

Pretty much every hotel we stay in has a "conservation program" in effect. They all have different names for it, but it's basically the same thing. If you're staying more than one night, you can opt out of having your sheets and towels replaced every day. In this way, the hotel is helping the environment by saving millions of gallons of water, hours of electricity and avoiding tons of chemicals ending up in the ground water. The tree-hugger in me would like to believe that the mega-corps actually care. The realist in me knows that it's nothing more than a shameless marketing ploy, begrudging enacted under pressure. Why? First: if they were truly committed to the environment or their program, they would train their housekeeping staff to follow the rules. No matter where I put my once-used towels, the maids INSIST on replacing them. On the shower rod, on the bathroom door, rehung on the towel bar, hidden in the closet or under the bed - they trade them for clean ones. Second: how can one profess to be "committed" to the planet and then happily supply guests with millions upon millions of plastic and Styrofoam cups. And worse still, to satisfy the germ-o-phobes who have been brainwashed into believing that bacterial are evil, the plastic cups are wrapped in .......PLASTIC!!!! If convenience is the enemy, then stupidity, greed and complacency are it's allies.