I’ve been working for years to get my fire dispensers into hotels but the useless ice dispenser lobby keeps blocking me.
They’re freezing you out!
sighs, rubs closed eyes
I’ll allow it.
There is no need for such a frosty reception. I thought their comment was pretty cool.
Hotel’s need good ice dispensers so that you can fill a bathtub with ice after removing your tinder date’s kidneys.
Is the ice for the kidneys or just like a post-nephrectomy cold plunge?
Ice bucket. We chill wine bottles.
Don’t call me an ice bucket. You’re an ice bucket.
Is that a challenge?
In my childhood, we drove everywhere - vacations, moving cross country to escape death threats, traveling to visit distant relatives, moving back cross country after my father died.
And the one constant was the road trip cooler. Stuffed with soda, snacks, bread, and lunch meat, that thing got toppedd up with ice at every hotel.And as an adult, I don’t really do that sort of travel anymore, but as others have said - for chilling drinks and what-not. (But never for putting into drinks.)
It’s for drinks. Is that actually confusing? Rather than put an ice maker in every room they just put one on each floor. So if they’re broken or ill-kept, that affects a lot of people.
Yup. Doubly true when someone wants to use the criminally overpriced mini fridge in their room. Maybe people want their $25 shot of whiskey on the rocks.
As a kid I thought this was just a weird hotel thing. Got the backstory eventually.
TL;DR: ice became commonplace around the time motel chains spread across the US.
Ice was once an exotic import only nice hotels could offer. Its perceived luxury remained decades after refrigeration allowed manufacture. Hotels could still charge for it, so they did, but in the ‘50s and ‘60s ice went from cheap to essentially free.
Concurrently, roadside motor-hotel (motel) chains spread across the US. Among these, “Holiday Inn” was the first to offer ice as a complementary amenity. Competitors followed suit. National roll-out at every motel franchise happened quickly. Soon nearly every hotel offered self-serve ice as a standard amenity.
Hence our icy embarrassment of riches.
Some of us are from the warmer climes and appreciate the healing power of ice. And soon, all of us will be from the warmer climes.
Except Britain and the rest of northwestern Europe. It’s going to be plunged into an ice age by the collapse of the gulf stream.
Your point is correct, but it’s the slowing of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, that’s the real problem. The Gulf Stream is just a part of its system.
Lots of joke replies but the real answer is because people travel with yeti coolers and sometimes it won’t all fit in the fridge.
Wtf is a yeti cooler? I didn’t know so many people are trying to smuggle yetis out of the Himalayas.
An Igloo Cooler for young people
My family used to buy summer passes to the local Holiday Inn’s swimming pool.
My cousin and I used to fill our pockets with ice cubes from the machines and then go jump into the pool.
No further questions please.
Too bad, I wanna know how it augmented jumping in the pool! Were you expecting it to in any way? Or was it just ADHD decision making?
It did make jumping in a little more refreshing, but it was just ADHD decision making. We also threw the ice at our other cousins while they weren’t looking.
xD Fair enough! Its nifty that it had a noticable impact on jumping in the water though!
