Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Crusade against tabletop ironing boards

Join my crusade. We shall write our legislators. We shall march on hotel corporate headquarters. We shall prevail in our mission to rid the world’s hotels of tabletop ironing boards.

Do hotels really save enough money on these despicable alternatives to justify the misery through which they put their guests? These atrocities slide all over the desk that you had to clear of your laptop and other belongings just to make room for it. One pant leg bunches up under the board while the other is being ironed. Your back aches as you lean over the contraption.

I call for an end to these abominations! Road warriors unit for full-sized ironing boards!

Oh, and coffee makers in the rooms, too.

(I’m at the Fogelman Executive Conference Center & “Hotel” at the university of Memphis, Tennessee. Across the street is the Holiday Inn, which manages the fourth floor of the Fogelman, where the hotel rooms are. The quotes around “hotel” are mine.)

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  1. Interestingly enough, considering that crew hotels are usually on the lower end of the quality spectrum, I’ve never been in a room with only a tabletop ironing board.

    Good thing, too, because the tabletop version would drive me nuts!

    Fly Girl  on  02/22  at  09:56 AM

  2. I’m all preapred to join your crusade, as long as these:-

    http://www.corbypress.com/product_hotels_p5.asp

    are included.

    Has one most recently in the Radisson SAS in Warsaw and it has all the drawbacks of the tabletop, but is also attached to the wall, usually in a place where you can’t even see the tv while you stand and iron.

    Despicable and nasty. They have to go.

    .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  on  02/23  at  01:48 AM

  3. If you’re ever travelling in BC, Alberta or Western USA (Washington, Portland, secondary markets in California, Boise Idaho, Anchorage Alaska) you should try out Coast Hotels & Resorts (http://www.coasthotels.com).  The full size ironing boards and the in-room coffee/tea/hot chocolate are two of the things that are promised chain-wide.

    Laura  on  02/25  at  12:09 PM

  4. I have an invention that when put in place will and I say will diliver you all and most of the world from the anxiety of hotel table top ironing! It is an add on to existing types out there and I am looking for investors. Don’t take my word for it just look at these posts. Infact, let’s talk and put a legaly binding agreement on paper, and see if what I have is what I say it will be? If you or someone you know is interested in making a mint overnight please let me know. The best thing is that this idea will change the way you/many iron clothes on the road for ever. All the hotels and lodging establishments, to many uses and other industries, not to mention Japan who sell more than 5 million ironing boards a year will beat the door down. If you or someone you know is serious about this let me know.

    Paul
    .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
    P.S. in the subject line put the word INVENTION

    .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  on  10/16  at  07:24 AM

  5. Do you have a tabletop ironing boards phobia? What’s wrong with that?

    pyramid tour  on  01/04  at  09:53 AM

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