Alice McFlurry :bc:
@Alice@beige.party  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

We checked into a hotel on Saturday and the TV had the typical thing where it was like "Welcome, Alice!" along with a loop of obnoxious ads about the hotel chain and my hotel ritual is turning that off ASAP, but the remote was nowhere to be found.

At that point, my husband started looking behind and under everything and essentially crawling around on the hotel room floor until he found the remote under the bed.

It was really small and basic, but I also have a Roku remote that's kiiiiind of similar so I started smashing all of the buttons trying to turn off the damn TV, but nothing happened and it was at that moment that everything clicked and I was like "oh no is this a remote for someone's sex toy?" and then Google lens confirmed my theory.

I immediately placed it in a tissue and went down to the lobby to tell reception what I found and to trade that remote for a real TV remote, but I can't stop thinking about what I may have been doing to the poor person in possession of the other half while I was smashing all of those buttons.
richrockster
@richrockster@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago
@Alice

"I immediately placed it in a tissue and went down to the lobby to tell reception what I found and to trade that remote for a real TV remote, but I can't stop thinking about what I may have been doing to the poor person in possession of the other half while I was smashing all of those buttons."

Oh, don't worry - they were enjoying it...
Jeff
@overeducatedredneck@bitbang.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago
@Alice FWIW, if the remote isn't right under the TV, I just unplug it. That would have prevented this story, which is all our loss, but you wouldn't have wound up spelunking for sex toys under a hotel bed.

For me, the biggest loss is the image of the hotel clerk calling prior guests and asking about the remote. Especially if the toy owner hadn't figured out it was the wrong remote.
Alice McFlurry :bc:
@Alice@beige.party replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago
@ColesStreetPothole When I got back to the reception desk, it was the same guy who had checked us in since it had been maybe fifteen minutes at most and I was smirking and said "someone left this in our room" and held out the tissue to hand it to him and he tried to reach into the tissue to grab it and I was like "it's in a tissue taco for a reason so you probably want to grab it by the tissue."
Steve's Place
@steter@mastodon.stevesworld.co replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago
@Alice "WelcOHSHITCOME to Nuclear Physics one OHHHH one!" *gasp* "I'll be your laOHb instructOOOOOHr."

This class would be extremely popular in most colleges and universities.

You should not feel pity for the person who left it. You should have mashed more buttons. They made someone look under a hotel bed and touch what they found there.