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Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Throwing cold water on 'human bed warmers' idea

It appears I lack that entrepreneurial spirit and imagination.
Nearly every night during the winter months, I try to be a considerate spouse by climbing into The Blonde Accountant’s side of the bed. The idea here is to warm her side up while she is in the bathroom completing whatever skin ritual it is she performs every evening.
And she always compliments me on my ability to make her side of the bed toasty warm. Now, somebody has figured out how to make bed toasting a full-time job. And it wasn’t me, although I’ve had plenty of time to lie there every night and think up the idea myself.
According to a wire service story, the international branch of Holiday Inn is offering, on a trial basis, human bed-warming services at three hotels in Britain.
Apparently, if requested by a guest, somebody will come into to your hotel room fully dressed in an all-in-one sleeper suit and some type of covering over their hair and get in your bed to warm it up. The person would then leave the bed before the guest climbed in, at least that’s the hotel’s theory.
I’m sorry, I don’t believe this particular hotel amenity interests me. I don’t want a big galoot named Gus in my bed. And you know it will be big galoots who get these jobs because they can warm up more of the bed’s surface. I know this because I am a big galoot and I can warm up a lot of the surface in my bed.
And by the way, what if the guest takes too long with his or her nightly bathroom ritual and good old Gus does his job so well that he falls asleep in the nice, toasty bed that he has just created?
“The new Holiday Inn bed warmers service is a bit like having a giant hot water bottle in your bed,” said Holiday Inn spokeswoman Jane Bednall in the wire service story.
So that begs the question, why not just offer guests a complimentary hot water bottle instead?

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Mike Morsch has been executive editor of Montgomery Newspapers since 2003. His award-winning humor column "Outta Leftfield" has been recognized by the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association, the Suburban Newspapers of America and the Philadelphia Press Association.

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