{"id":169,"date":"2007-04-11T05:59:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-11T13:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/wordpress\/?p=169"},"modified":"2007-04-11T05:59:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-11T13:59:00","slug":"for-your-convenience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/for-your-convenience.html","title":{"rendered":"For your convenience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a post started with some trip details, but in the meantime, here&#8217;s a little rant for you:<\/p>\n<p>I am getting a little sick of people (mostly businesses) asking me to do things &#8220;for [my] convenience&#8221; when they really mean for their own convenience.<\/p>\n<p>This morning as I checked out of the hotel, the automated voice told me that I could leave my room key in my room &#8220;for [my] convenience&#8221;.  Now this one I didn&#8217;t mind AS much, since I guess that&#8217;s as good a place as any, though you could certainly make the argument leaving it there is definitely more for the hotel&#8217;s convenience, rather than just taking it home with you, as certain people I know are wont to do.<\/p>\n<p>But the one that really cracked me up happened as I was checking in on Sunday.  It was later in the day (5:30-ish) as I came up to the front desk.  Off on the other side of the lobby, there was a smaller desk that advertised itself as being checkout \/ checkin for HHonors patrons (their rewards program) .  This smaller checkout was closed, I suppose due to the lateness, but on the desk was a sign that said &#8220;For your convenience, please use the main check-in desk&#8221;.  So, I&#8217;m trying to figure out which of the following are true:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Palmer House Hilton thinks that it is more convenient for me to <b>wait in line<\/b> to check-in rather than check-in with no line<\/li>\n<li>They think that I&#8217;m stupid enough to just sit there all night waiting for someone to check me in, or that if they just put a &#8220;Closed&#8221; sign or something like that I wouldn&#8217;t be able to figure out.<\/li>\n<li>Something else.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, for your convenience, please leave me a comment with any good examples of people using this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a post started with some trip details, but in the meantime, here&#8217;s a little rant for you: I am getting a little sick of people (mostly businesses) asking me to do things &#8220;for [my] convenience&#8221; when they really mean for their own convenience. This morning as I checked out of the hotel, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}