Requirements increase with experience

When I first started flying, every hotel room seemed magnificent. They were FREE by God! I'll stay anywhere if you're paying for it! The complimentary soaps and pens and pads of paper avec hotel logo were spectacular just because they were present: "How nice that they line all the products up in a row! And look at this plastic 'presentational stage' they are set out upon in the bathroom!"

Now, almost a year later I've stayed in quite a few hotel rooms and already I can smell a dump from a mile away. No more am I so easily impressed by bath products. A slightly off smell, water that doesn't quite get hot enough, a phone that doesn't work...I can't explain it exactly, but I know a dump right away now. I know a dump when I'm in the hallway.

I don't think it would bother me if i weren't on a work trip. If I went on vacation somewhere I doubt I would care as long as the price was right. But when I am away from home for my job...i want my temporary head laying room to be nice. and not have a weird smell. or be noisy. or ugly. or dirty or cheesy. In fact I have higher standards for my home away from home than I do for my actual home. Because I know where the smells are coming from at my house (insert joke here...)

Its weird how suddenly I have developed "standards" when it comes to hotel rooms. Especially since it is a well known fact that I can sleep absolutely ANYWHERE without the slightest difficulty. And that's still true. I can sleep like a baby in a dumpy hotel room. I just don't daydream as much.