I stayed in a hotel in Newport Beach last night (attended a retirement party and didn't want to make the nearly 2-hour trip back south to San Diego late at night while ever-so-slightly buzzed on rum and colas) and found a mild surprise in the bedstand drawer. There next to the ubiquitous Gideon Bible was a copy of The Teachings of Buddha (having been placed there by a Buddhist group whose name escapes me now that I am back home.) Admittedly I don't spend a lot of time in hotels but I can't ever remember seeing any other spiritual book other than the ones distributed by the Gideons having been placed in drawers in the rooms.
It was kind of cool and I actually leafed through it bit this morning before checking out (though if this becomes a trend, the bedstand drawers in hotels could turn into libraries with everything from the Koran to the Book of Mormon vying for the attention of weary and/or bored travelers.)
4 comments:
If you stay at a hotel in one of the mountain states you WILL find the Book of Mormon beside the Bible. When we stayed in a hotle for my nicece's wedding in Colorado it was there. Same is true in Arizona in certain hotels.
I've seen a Koran at least once. I think it was in Anaheim.
:)
before long they will put bookshelfs in hotel rooms. they you will have a wide selection to choose from. Scary huh?
Namaste
Danny Barnes
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