Check-in procedure at my Boston hotel: insert credit card. Wait. Receive receipt and key card. Time from walking in the door to walking in the room: 37 seconds. Impressive.
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Do you time everything? :)
Do you time everything? :) Sounds like a good system though…
Sounds like the “new” Esso
Sounds like the “new” Esso Speedpass. Point the little key chain thingy at the gas pump, pump gas, take receipt and drive away. Very cool.
The system sounds great when
The system sounds great when I think of the vapid and insincere pleasantries that management sometimes forces their unhappy minimum wage employees to put us customers through. But then I think about the interactions I have traveling in foreign countries where I barely speak the language—like Thailand. The people whom I paid for things are practically the only locals I got to talk to, and my interactions among guest-house proprietors were among the best (taxi drivers the worst). I hate to think there will be a day when a traveller never interacts with his “hosts”—the people who offer him or her shelter.
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