is it only allowed to be used when you are having sex with someone? is it an automatic indicator that you are in there having sex? is it because you don't want little kids to hear you?
is it only allowed to be used when you are having sex with someone? is it an automatic indicator that you are in there having sex? is it because you don't want little kids to hear you?
I put the "do not disturb" sign when I have to take a dump. I like to get naked and shower afterward.
I don't want anyone coming in while I am doing either.
Or when I am trying to take a nap or watching TV..
or rubbing one out.
Some hotels start the cleaning and checking the mini-fridge too early not realising we're on holiday, have late nights and can wake up anytime we want. If I get back to my room at 3,4 or 5 am, I'll hang the sign knowing I won't be done with the room until tenish or elevenish.
Maybe I worked 16 hours, went to bed at 2AM and want to sleep more than I want fresh towels.
Hotels start cleaning rooms before the scheduled checkout time. The "do not disturb" sign is an indication to the cleaning staff to wait until you have checkout out before cleaning the room.
The signs do nothing. Out of concern for privacy I allways hang one when I am leaving the room in the morning and they still clean the room, obviously ignoring the sign.
they don't work anyway wrote:
The signs do nothing. Out of concern for privacy I allways hang one when I am leaving the room in the morning and they still clean the room, obviously ignoring the sign.
I don't know what kind of hotels you stay at, but in over 30 years of travel this has never happened to me. In fact, there is usually a note slipped under the door along the lines of "We didn't service your room because of the do not disturb sign. If you need anything, let us know."
You put the sign on the door if you do not want to be disturbed.
You have to hang the sign on the outside of the door.
I hate wasting human time, energy, and resources so I hang the do not disturb sign during my entire stay at places so they won't clean it.
Almost all the it works. Sometimes housekeeping calls me to make sure I'm not dead.
i leave it up unless i want the room cleaned
Are they still giving away free t-shirts? I think this thread should get a free t-shirt.
I usually put it on the door first thing when I arrive. I don't want a complimentary drink, fruit plate, my bed turned down etc.
I flip it to, "Please clean the room" when I leave in the morning.
i dont understand. wrote:
is it only allowed to be used when you are having sex with someone? is it an automatic indicator that you are in there having sex? is it because you don't want little kids to hear you?
Are you mentally disabled? Its so the cleaning people dont come in if you dont want them to.
I've seen some that say"if this room's a rockin, don't come a knockin"
Also seen " Getting it on. Please come back"
I keep it on the door because I'm a recluse introvert. I do not want to see or interact with people, ever. I hang it only when I must leave the room.
Congratulations "i dont understand" -- this could be the dumbest thread I've ever seen make it to the front page. And, this being letsrun, that is pretty impressive.
oh brother wrote:
Congratulations "i dont understand" -- this could be the dumbest thread I've ever seen make it to the front page. And, this being letsrun, that is pretty impressive.
Can 13 year olds check into a hotel unattended?
Once again Art Linkletter is proven to be correct. Kids do say the darndest things!
"Do not disturb" signs in hotels are relics from an earlier time when people were used to servants. There were far more service people in the year 1900 than there are now--personal service people, people to start a fire in the little fireplace in your hotel or tavern room, people to bring your bags up from the carriage, open your suitcase, put your clothes in the closet, people to wash and iron your clothes, turn down your bed, plump your pillow, that sort of thing. It was understood that they needed to be coming in and out of your room to do various things at all hours of the day and evening. The fact that you had so many people waiting on your beck and call meant that you were a classy person. I'm not judging, I'm just saying. Read Henry James or Edith Wharton.
The DND sign was a way of putting a halt to all that service-bustle. It was a way of saying, "I'm out for the count, leave me alone," or "I've got a woman up here," or "I'm returning to private life for the next few hours."
That whole world of service has pretty much disappeared, except in certain sorts of five-star hotels, and even then, the porter isn't coming into your room to make and service the fire. The DND sign is an atavism: a relic from an earlier evolutionary moment.
Thanks for the new to me word
Definition of atavism
a : recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination
b : recurrence of or reversion to a past style, manner, outlook, approach, or activity