We 99%ers seeking inexpensive lodging when we travel have a new and exciting option. A Hong Kong company offers stackable sleeping pods ("It's like Legos!"). Each pod is slightly larger than a twin bed and, this being the 21st century, is Wi-Fi enabled with a computer table, bed, and air-conditioning. A photo accompanying the article describing the pods shows them stacked four across and two high. The article notes that "Some potential customers expressed doubts about the practicality of the coffin-like pods for long-term residence."
Hey, coffins work for vampires' long-term residence and what is more popular nowadays than The Twilight Saga. "Bella, ignore the advances of that muscular werewolf guy. He will make you sleep in a musty, damp den. Join my vampire brethren in an air-conditioned pod. We have Wi-Fi."
My guess is that those balky "potential customers" experienced the joys of Army Basic Training in a WW II vintage barracks. We Basic Trainees slept in bunk beds about three feet apart. Each barracks floor had 60 bunks crammed inside. Walking down the barracks floor after light out to the cacophony of snoring and emission of body gas from 60 individuals was memorable. Enclosing individuals in "pods" will help, of course, but will the "pods" solve the noise and smell problems entirely?
Even if they do, access to the top tier of pods must be via external ladders. Imagine being awakened by some poor top-tier, irritable bladder syndrome afflicted soul clambering up and down a ladder outside your pod repeatedly during the night.
Maybe stackable sleeping pods will be successful, but I'll pay extra for a conventional hotel room.
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