cmendla - 6:59 pm on Jun 22, 2009 (gmt 0)

Sorry for the multiple posts but this thing really irks me.

I was just thinking about a trip we took about 2 years ago. We checked into a 5 star hotel that was a one night stopover. We had booked the second smallest room. When my wife and I checked in they said they would do an upgrade. I was back at the truck unloading when our son ran up and said "Dad, you have to see the room we got".

Turns out they gave us the Governors Suite. Now, I had no way of knowing WHY they gave us the suite.

1. It is not that hard to tie my last name to the sites I have. Perhaps they figured it out.
2. Perhaps the male clerk thought my wife was cute
3. Perhaps the female clerks thought I was cute (Yeah right, I slmost lost my keyboard to coffee writing that)
4. Perhaps is was the credit card I used.

Anyway, we got a free upgrade of significant value and I don't really know why. So, any sites with affiliate links might be tainted in the eyes of the FTC even though I don't beleive it was a quid pro quo.

So, while the government tries to protect us from that kind of vague greyness, we have a former senator who got one sweetheart of a land deal when he bought his house and then pushed legislation to allow his benefactor to take over the board of a hospital. A couple of million in clearly illicit transaction and...... crickets...