When I worked as a cleaner, I learned a couple of invaluable lessons – firstly, that Henry is the best vacuum, and secondly, that you can’t really tuck bedsheets in tightly enough.
Smooth, wrinkle-free sheets, neatly folded under the mattress, became a mark of pride in our team. So much so, in fact, that I’ll confess we almost forgot what it’d be like to actually climb in them.
Guests are less dismissive. One Redditor posted to r/NoStupidQuestions, “Why do some hotels tuck their bedsheets so tightly that it feels impossible to get in?”
A TikTok video, meanwhile, shows a poster desperately trying to yank his blanket out from under his hotel mattress.
As it turns out, though, there’s a method to the madness.
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