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Hi, Edwin (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I stayed at a hotel a while ago that left a little plushie on the bed when I checked in. It was a generic wolf plushie, kinda scratchy, not especially high quality, with a goofy little detective hat with a pineapple pattern (the hotel was called Stay Pineapple) sewn onto its head.

photo of the plushie in question as seen on the hotel's online storefront

It said on the tag that if you took the plushie home with you they'd add $35 or something to your tab when you checked out. That's the manipulative capitalism part. They didn't have the plushies in a little gift shop -- I almost certainly wouldn't have bought it if they had -- they put it on my bed so I'd already have picked it up and hugged it and stuff and have to "leave it behind".

I very much feel the sentiment in this tweet.

It's not even that good of a plushie. Why did I take it home?