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[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It’s for drinks. Is that actually confusing? Rather than put an ice maker in every room they just put one on each floor. So if they’re broken or ill-kept, that affects a lot of people.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yup. Doubly true when someone wants to use the criminally overpriced mini fridge in their room. Maybe people want their $25 shot of whiskey on the rocks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Or when the mini fridge has that stupidly buggy weight system that charges you a storage fee rendering it effectively useless

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So, you basically need to pull an Indiana Jones and replace the liquor with something else of equal weight?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Well I was talking about when you want to use the minifridge as a minifridge

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

And some of those have weight sensors to tell if you took something out.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I feel like I'm the only person who goes to a hotel to sleep, not chill a 24 pack of diet Coke and a bottle of champagne to drink (without this hotel ice) after eating a ham sandwich out of my rolling cooler which needs a top off.

Where are you all traveling with your champagne and ham sandwiches?!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

That didn't work so well for Mama Cass

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Said by someone who's never had to cool down their ~~bear~~ beer with a bad mini fridge or without one at all.

I'm leaving the typo because it makes me giggle.

Edit - oh I was giggling about bears so much I forgot. It's also a service for the local youth Ice Hockey teams. They come to the hotels with these cute little plastic sticks capable of turning a hallway into a ~~ice based turkey shoot~~ improvised game of hockey with ice pucks.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago (1 children)

My family used to buy summer passes to the local Holiday Inn's swimming pool.

My cousin and I used to fill our pockets with ice cubes from the machines and then go jump into the pool.

No further questions please.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Too bad, I wanna know how it augmented jumping in the pool! Were you expecting it to in any way? Or was it just ADHD decision making?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It did make jumping in a little more refreshing, but it was just ADHD decision making. We also threw the ice at our other cousins while they weren't looking.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

xD Fair enough! Its nifty that it had a noticable impact on jumping in the water though!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (2 children)

"You've got to start selling this for more than a dollar a bag. We lost 4 more men on this expedition."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

“If you can think of a better way to get ice, I'd like to hear it.”

[–] [email protected] 71 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

As a kid I thought this was just a weird hotel thing. Got the backstory eventually.

TL;DR: ice became commonplace around the time motel chains spread across the US.

Ice was once an exotic import only nice hotels could offer. Its perceived luxury remained decades after refrigeration allowed manufacture. Hotels could still charge for it, so they did, but in the ‘50s and ‘60s ice went from cheap to essentially free.

Concurrently, roadside motor-hotel (motel) chains spread across the US. Among these, “Holiday Inn” was the first to offer ice as a complementary amenity. Competitors followed suit. National roll-out at every motel franchise happened quickly. Soon nearly every hotel offered self-serve ice as a standard amenity.

Hence our icy embarrassment of riches.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Nice history. Ice is awesome, what kind of psycopath's want warm drinks? Even if ice hadn't been some exotic luxury in the past, I would still demand ice.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Me, i always order warm tap water at restaurants

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

[almost] Nobody wants warm drinks. Many of us happily tolerate warm drinks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

FUCK I missed your first word, it already pre-aknowledged I'm a weirdo

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Everyone is a weirdo in their own way.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Thank you for this comment.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Coolers, wine/champagne, cups with vending machine beverages, water bottles...

Op doesn't have much of an imagination

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

A shit load of ice to cool your rum. A shit load of ice to cool your cola. A shit load of ice to go in the glass.

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