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Maybe, and also 100% guarantees I’ll never stay there with my family.

But do you check if the hotel has bathroom doors? If yes, where? You call up and ask? And trust the person on the phone is honest?

Most people would assume bathrooms have doors. It is just exhausting to have to check for every small, commonsensical, super basic detail

The more I travel with my family the more things I add to my list of things to ask about.

It's extremely exhausting, welcome to modern America. Where you can't trust shit from anyone. Everyone is lying, everything is a scam, everything is stupid just cuz, and it feels more and more like the world around you is being specifically designed to piss you off as much as possible.

I just want to give businesses my money in exchange for goods and services. Is that asking too much?

"Buyer beware! You are responsible for checking for X!" is a lame excuse, and just enables the worst possible behavior from vendors and service providers. I shouldn't have to check 500 things every time I choose to do business with someone! This is madness.

Imagine some future hotel service trend where, right after the customer checks in, the checkin agent punches the customer in the face, by policy. I shouldn't have to check beforehand whether this is a "face punch" hotel or a "non face punch" hotel.

We shouldn't all have to live our lives with Caveat Emptor as some sort of horrible default societal moral framework.

> Imagine some future hotel service trend where, right after the customer checks in, the checkin agent punches the customer in the face, by policy. I shouldn't have to check beforehand whether this is a "face punch" hotel or a "non face punch" hotel.

Reminds me of that Burkiss Way sketch where somebody wants to book tickets to a West End show, but they all involve the spectators being poked in the eye with a pencil:

https://www.buttercookie.de/The%20Burkiss%20Way/Transcripts/...

Perhaps not, but I'd definitely check Yelp, and I'd also definitely pass word to the next Yelper or travel website viewer who comes along. That's not perfect, obviously, but those poor reviews really do start to take money out of the scummy owners' pockets.

And a lot of people just don't care about many of those details (and others may deeply care about things that don't matter to you). Bathroom doors are mostly something that wouldn't appear on my radar screen in general. While I might notice things that wouldn't be on yours.

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