[543] in Humor
HUMOR: welcome to hotel Sartre
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew A. Bennett)
Mon Nov 14 12:41:59 1994
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 1994 12:37:31 EST
From: "Andrew A. Bennett" <abennett@MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 1994 09:33:39 -0700 (MST)
From: Espacionaute Spiff domine! <MATOSSIAN%ARIES@VAXF.Colorado.EDU>
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From: ian@ai.mit.edu (Ian Horswill)
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 1994 18:12:42 -0500
Newsgroups: comp.risks
The hotel I was in last weekend had a nifty video-based message system.
They had the standard spectra-vision pay-per-view interactive video
hardware in the rooms so they set it up so you could review your bill,
check out, and collect your messages using your TV and remote control as
a terminal. Pretty nifty.
So one night, I get back to my room and press the "check messages" button.
After a longish pause, my TV greets me with the message:
"We're sorry, but the hotel records indicate that this room does not
exist. Please contact the front desk if this is not the case."
At first, this caused a sort of Sartrian crisis within me, but then I
relaxed. According to the hotel phone directory, the front desk didn't
exist either, so I was obviously in good company.
P.S. It would seem that someone inadvertently checked me out.
