Shower Cap Meltdown

Dissatisfied & Dissociating

Anton Chekhov wrote, “Any idiot can face a crisis; it’s this day-to-day living that wears you out.”

And so yeah, when you’re enduring multiple, simultaneous crises: the death of democracy, the erosion of human rights, the demise of MTV… it can be a little thing that sends you over the edge.

So, I’m traveling for work. I check into my hotel and realize I need a shower cap. I go to the front desk and they said, of course they have shower caps. They can sell me one for a dollar.

Dearest Gentle Reader, A shower cap is usually one of the complementary amenities that hotels provide to their guests like soap, clean towels, a door that locks.

So, I go back to my room without the shower cap because it’s not the dollar. It’s the principal.

I try to go online. But apparently, it’s not enough that the hotel room is paid for. The only way to get free Wi-Fi at this hotel is to join their “rewards program.”

The rewards program that sends me endless emails I can never opt out of? The one that values my private information so much that they sell it? Or is it the rewards program where I get a shower cap?

Now, to be fair, they did have free breakfast and free ice. I took them up on the meal.

I passed on the ice; as should we all.

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