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WHEN YOU’RE STAYING in a hotel (especially if it’s one in Ireland), sometimes you’ll find that the hotel room does not have electricity.
This issue is immediately resolved when you stick one of the hotel’s key-cards into a little slot on the wall. In fact, it doesn’t just have to be a key-card. It can be any card. It’s simple enough.
But, apparently there are thousands of people who never knew that a regular card will work in the place of a key-card. This was revealed when Twitter user @Oog uploaded a photograph of her Waitrose loyalty card doing the key-card’s job.
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Wanted to charge my battery pack whilst I was I eating dinner, but needed my keycard pic.twitter.com/TsHqihGxTu
She received hundreds of responses from 1) people who had no idea that hotels actually ask you to leave your card in a slot if you want to use their electricity and 2) people whose minds were blown that any card will work in these slots.
The bit that took me a while was the realisation that some hotels are shitty enough to not supply power to the room without you inserting a card in a slot! Never come across it, myself.
What? You can put ANY card in the hotel light thing? What the hell?! I’ve been locking my bloody room in the bloody dark for HOW LONG?! https://t.co/rkouY8yntf
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Thursday 19 December, 2024
Thursday 19 December, 2024
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Twitter users were astounded to learn that you can use any card in a hotel's electricity slot
WHEN YOU’RE STAYING in a hotel (especially if it’s one in Ireland), sometimes you’ll find that the hotel room does not have electricity.
This issue is immediately resolved when you stick one of the hotel’s key-cards into a little slot on the wall. In fact, it doesn’t just have to be a key-card. It can be any card. It’s simple enough.
But, apparently there are thousands of people who never knew that a regular card will work in the place of a key-card. This was revealed when Twitter user @Oog uploaded a photograph of her Waitrose loyalty card doing the key-card’s job.
She received hundreds of responses from 1) people who had no idea that hotels actually ask you to leave your card in a slot if you want to use their electricity and 2) people whose minds were blown that any card will work in these slots.
So. Did you know that you could use any card in the electricity slot?
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