| Charge It to My Room! |
[24 Aug 2015|09:56am] |
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http://www.slate.com/articles/life/travel_explainer/2015/08/charging_drinks_to_rooms_how_do_hotels_prevent_abuse_of_the_system.html Hotel bars and restaurants are wonderful parts of the lodging experience. There’s nothing better than knowing that if you overdo it (whether accidentally or intentionally), you can politely stumble to the elevator and be in your bed, half-comatose and still fully clothed, within minutes. But not before you’re able to utter five powerful words: “Charge it to my room.” The room charge is clearly a convenient custom, but how is it kept secure? After all, a hotel bar can be brimming with activity at any given time, and presumably anyone could claim your number as their own. How do hotels keep the room charge system free from abuse?
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| The Six Rules of Line-Shopping at Trader Joe’s |
[24 Aug 2015|01:33pm] |
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http://www.slate.com/articles/life/food/2015/08/etiquette_for_shopping_while_your_cart_is_in_line_at_grocery_store_efficiency.html If you live in a big city, and there’s a Trader Joe’s nearby, you probably know that rush hour there is a madhouse. Since so many urbanites like shopping for cheap, healthy (or at least healthy-looking) food in a nautical-themed atmosphere, peak hours such as weekday evenings and Sunday afternoons find the produce section packed, the aisles clogged, the refrigerated sections swarmed. Making the congestion even worse, the checkout line sometimes winds all the way around the store, with Trader Joe’s “crew members” deployed to hold flags reading “End of Line” seemingly miles away from the registers.
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