A Quick Rant
Because I need to clean up my apartment; don’t look at me that way, I hadn’t yet seen this week’s episodes of Ugly Betty or Pushing Daisies.
Anyway, web ads annoy me in general, but the ones that are really getting on my nerves are the Marriott Residence Inn commercials—you know the ones I’m talking about. In one, a woman jumps onto a counter and supports herself on one hand while flipping an apple into the air, catching it, and then biting into it. In another, some guy arrives and decides that spinning plates would be a fun thing to do. The point of these commercials? To master the long trip, which apparently involves complicated movements and showing off the Residence Inn’s kitchens.
In my experience as a business traveler, I do none of these things; not at the Marriott Residence Inn I’ve stayed at, not at any hotel equipped with a kitchen into which I’ve been placed. Were I to try any of these moves, I’d either end up killing myself or wrecking all the plates about me. In fact, when I arrive at any hotel, I usually do room service or find a nearby, reasonably priced restaurant with low-fat options instead of using the kitchen. Don’t these people get reimbursed for their expenses?
However, am I missing something? Is this what a business traveler actually does? Perform artistic feats, interpretive dance, or restaurant tricks for their own satisfaction? Am I a little slow on the uptake? Should I be enrolling in knife-throwing classes in preparation for my next business trip (late November)?
I realize the advantage of cooking your own meal away from home, I do; however, I don’t understand how these commercials are supposed to make me feel like I’m at home or in control. Showing me impractical use of a kitchen, be it by spinning plates or performing yoga moves, isn’t going to increase my chances of staying at a Residence Inn. I have a feeling they were going for urbane and modish, but ended up with ridiculous and garbled.
Off to vacuum while performing rhythmic gymnastics with the cord.
