Hotel Room Refrigerators, Free?
Have you ever been given way more than you ask for? I have a friend who made arrangements to rent a long-bed pickup truck from U-haul so he could buy a few loads of plywood from the home-improvement store and haul them home. When he got to the U-haul store, he found a van parked out front, that was hitched to a 24-foot long, high capacity, double axel utility trailer. He walked inside to discover that they had rented the pickup truck that he’d reserved, to another customer by mistake. They were only going to charge him the regular pickup truck price, but now he had a 24-foot long trailer that could have carried enough concrete to build a house. His load of plywood looked pretty ridiculous sitting on that trailer!
It was too bad my friend didn’t have an old rusty Buick to move out of his yard that day, because that trailer would have done the job! It wasn’t his fault that the smallest thing they had to offer could also have hauled 30,000lbs of concrete or steel.
You can work some magic along these lines in a hotel if you need a refrigerator in your room… Almost all hotels will provide you with a refrigerator if you have medication that requires refrigeration. The best part about this is that the hotel is certainly not going to ask to see your prescription, so what difference does it make if your supply of drugs is a tiny vial of eye-drops? As far as that goes, it doesn’t even have to be a prescription, right? You may prefer that your eye-drops be cool, so you keep them in the refrigerator at home. One call to the front desk about your “medication that requires refrigeration” will have a fridge in your room at little to no cost, tout-suite!
So what if there’s a bunch of extra room for leftover pizza, cold beverages, and some Chinese Food leftovers from dinner? You NEED that refrigerator! You can’t help it if there’s a ton of extra space in there!
So to sum up, I am certainly NOT suggesting that you take advantage of a hotel by calling down to the front desk and asking for a small refrigerator to hold your medication, when in fact you don’t have such medicine. I’m merely suggesting that this service is almost always offered should you need to cool down some aspirin on a hot day or something…
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