First-world problems

Drugstore closed for the weekend?

 

Starwood's elite guests wonder if travel will become pedestrian under Marriott

Marriott does treat its top-tier platinum guests to nicer rooms but rarely gives them suites. Both programs offer free breakfast to platinum members, except Marriott doesn't do so at its Courtyard hotels. Late checkout isn't guaranteed, just offered "subject to availability."

"No Starwood Platinum member has ever said 'I would rather be a Marriott Platinum,'" says Gary Leff, who writes about points and miles at ViewFromTheWing.com.

 

Amazon Prime doesn't do overnight weekend deliveries.

 

My newspapers get soggy when the delivery guy comes before the sprinkler system goes on.

 

I have an occassionsal commute that includes a 10-mile stretch of a somewhat windy two-lane road. There never seems to be any cars in the other direction except in the few spots where it's legal to pass the slower cars that are inevitably in front of me.

 

Dog sellers on the interwebs are all grifters.

 

The woman who cleans my house once every two weeks rearranged my clothes in my walk-in closet. I had everything organized functionally. She chose to organize by color.

 

Oof. I would be pissed about that.

 

I would too. Had a housekeeper rearrange the stuff on the bathroom counter and I was unhappy. Can't imagine someone going into a closet without being asked.

 

I got annoyed a couple weeks back when my housecleaners who come every two weeks didn't decoratively place my daughter's stuffed animals around her room. She had placed them around her bed before they showed up but the housecleaners just left them there.

 

I don't let the maid into my lair. Focus on the bathrooms and kitchen.
I appreciate the effort, though. Some of them barely try.

 

The sad part is she is such a great cleaner and nice person that I gave some serious thought to whether I could live with her organization system, rather than risk upsetting her by changing it back.