Dammit Jim, I'm not an engineer, I'm a...
Jul. 9th, 2006 01:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
indigo_rose99I couldn't get the closet light to turn off. Which, when I gave in to exhaustion and just closed the closet sliding doors tightly and went to bed, didn't seem like such a big deal.
But then I woke up at 1am and reopened the doors to check again (closet light still bright, even with the doors closed) if there was a switch inside the closet, and discovered that my clothes have been baking. *sigh* I rechecked every single switch in the room. And there are a lot of them. No closet switch.
Then I called down to the front desk to ask, "How do I turn the light off in my closet?" What followed could have been a comedy routine. He asked if I wanted a taxi. A shuttle to the airport. A wakeup call (he liked that one -- he asked it four times). *sigh*
Obviously, there is a script with limited number of options. The word "closet" was not in this gentleman's repertoire. *sigh* Back to checking every single switch in the room.
And finally back to the closet. I once stayed in a hotel room in which the closet light would only turn off if the doors were fully shut. Closed it... nope. Opened it again. This is a sliding door... I checked for switches along the sliders. No switches. But there were some mysterious holes in the ceiling... I wonder if I covered the holes with the doors...
And the light went off. *bang head on closet door* Ow.
But then I woke up at 1am and reopened the doors to check again (closet light still bright, even with the doors closed) if there was a switch inside the closet, and discovered that my clothes have been baking. *sigh* I rechecked every single switch in the room. And there are a lot of them. No closet switch.
Then I called down to the front desk to ask, "How do I turn the light off in my closet?" What followed could have been a comedy routine. He asked if I wanted a taxi. A shuttle to the airport. A wakeup call (he liked that one -- he asked it four times). *sigh*
Obviously, there is a script with limited number of options. The word "closet" was not in this gentleman's repertoire. *sigh* Back to checking every single switch in the room.
And finally back to the closet. I once stayed in a hotel room in which the closet light would only turn off if the doors were fully shut. Closed it... nope. Opened it again. This is a sliding door... I checked for switches along the sliders. No switches. But there were some mysterious holes in the ceiling... I wonder if I covered the holes with the doors...
And the light went off. *bang head on closet door* Ow.
