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MrWolf wrote in chi.places:

> Any place in the chicago, melrose/stone park area that has hourly room
> rates, that aren't scummy??? I'd even go as far as schaumburg...

Sorry, but they're all scummy, sir.  Literally.  I saw it reported as
part of a special Unit 5 Investigation on Monday night's Channel 5
("Committed to Chicago") News at 10.  Dave Savini and some kind of
bodily fluids expert guy checked into a number of quality motor lodges
(and even some honest-to-goodness hotels) with an ultraviolet light and
some little scraping tools.

Kinky fun?  Not exactly.  Once safely alone inside, they pored over
the blankets on the bed looking for crusty little splotches which,
though imperceptable in ordinary light, glowed quite unabashedly under
the purple party lamp.  Scientific analysis revealed these spillages to
be none other than (brace yourself) semen and vaginal fluid.

In a *motel*.  On the blankets of the *bed*.

They were turning the lights off, turning them back on, crawling around
the bed on their hands and knees, brushing the blankets with their
hands to feel for crusty parts, scraping the crusty parts into sample
bags with their little tools--as Roseanne Roseanadanna used to say, I
thought I was gonna *die* (between gagging and laughing myself silly at
the state of TV news).

It turns out that neither hotels nor motels launder all the bedding
after each and every use.  Sure they might do the sheets, but the
blankets usually stay on for several days.

The danger here?  Well for one, hepatitis can theoretically stay active
in such stains for up to a week.  The recommendation:  Ask for fresh
blankets every time.  Also: one hotel owner said that *he* just might
have to take a closer look--  (... 2, 3, 4 ...) at his *laundry policy*.

Mark Czerniec <czerniec@execpc.com>
Kenosha, Wisconsin <http://members.aol.com/markenosha> reporting.
Back to you in the studio.