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How unsettling it is to find an extra door in my hotel room.

There's the bathroom door, the closet door, and one more door.

For a moment I considered picking up the phone to dial the front desk to ask if there was some mistake.

I had asked for the best deal they had, not the haunted room with the trick door for the pranksters to escape.

I looked out in the hall. Whose room was next to mine?

Just a little green door with no room number, next to the stairs.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 7mo ago 💬 2

i've seen this in a hotel one time... it was the room next door, i figured they can rent them for a group and the door can be unlocked to allow the two rooms to be effectively joined for whatever reason

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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 7mo ago

often the base reason is that the hotel was once a rich person's house and possibly sometimes one of the rooms was a closet, or a study, or other similar kinds of attached rooms next to bedrooms. or they may have once been offices.

gojiberra 7mo ago 💬 3

Hah. A suite I should have figured as much, however since the door next door was just a staircase and a closet, I think it was a secret passageway...

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 7mo ago

yeah, they don't make them like they used to in most of the world

construction labor has been pared to the bone as has the price of real estate gone through the roof (the bank owns the land, the building is a separate but immovable part of the price, the bankster inflation on land prices ate the viability of proper, careful and labor intensive construction - what you are experiencing is evidence of a crime).

gojiberra 7mo ago 💬 1

I think you're right. This is an amazing building built late 20s or early 30s.

I was just thinking about how a lot of people make the mistake on US road trips of sticking to the interstates. The world of the boomers.

There was a whole pre-1940s world on the back highways. little towns with beautiful buildings from 1890s -1920s timeframe.

And then there's the ancient civilizations that we are just now finding in the Americas. It's such an amazing continent.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 7mo ago

indeed, i'm on a mission to stack enough to get a boat and go there by wind power in the future. not sure about what is a good time to sail the atlantic, based on the intense windy stormy weather of feb-may on the north of this island i'm guessing that i probably don't want to go on a long haul until a full year from now, so i may just go and dock in cape verde for a while and wait out the bad winter weather then i'm heading for the coast of south america somewhere. idk, brazil, maybe, but then i might as well circle around and go up the west of the gulf and see ES and guatemala and mexico

gojiberra 7mo ago 💬 1

To your point, side by side

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 7mo ago

yup, people used to spend a lot more resources on building than they do now. everything has been cut to the bone, and fitted out with fragile chinese plastic shit