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Originally Posted by Seafra
So if you want to holler, go ahead. This is the odd animal that is the hotel business.
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Like I said, if someone came to disturb me while I was quietly reading tarot in a hotel lobby (as I have done many times before, on 4 different continents, without anyone ever objecting to it), I would not make a fuss, I would first inform staff that I was being disturbed by an objectionable fellow guest, and if the staff did nothing about said guest annoying me, I would leave. If the staff came to ask me to stop doing my quiet activity, I would not make a fuss either, I would say very little - I would simply check out of the hotel and leave. It's my choice as a customer not to patronise an establishment that gives more weight to moralisers and tarotphobics than to tolerance and mutual courtesy.
I do not choose to give my custom to places where ordinary quiet activities are frowned upon and where "live and let live" is not part of the business policy. That's my business, just as doing whatever you please in your hotel is your business.
And yes, it is tarotphobia. What else can you call it? How on earth can one compare quietly laying down cards to playing a loud musical instrument or making love in public? It's absurd.
Interesting that nobody has come back on me on the arms dealers doing business in the lobby. This is not a fantasy example, it is based on actual experience.