It was last night, but I've seen much older things, so š¤·š
I'm touring with a dance troupe, we're in NZ at the moment. Staying at a pretty nice, but unremarkable hotel (based on my hotel experience, which is minimal to this point in life apart from this tour.)
I had some dirty dishes building up; congealed coffee and day-old chicken scraps, and figured I should do some dishes washing. Crap goes in sink, plug in, detergent in, hot water on, wait.
Phone rings. It's my partner, so I grab my headphones, do a little bit of faffing getting them to talk to the phone, plug my phone in, and we start chatting. I completely forget about the sink. For like 20 minutes.
At one point the call dropped out, and I took my headphones off... And that's when I heard/realised.
Fuuuuuck. Fuck. The tiles are 2cm deep under water, it's saturated the carpet. I get busy mopping up with towels and wringing them out in the sink, and the downstairs neighbour knocks on my door, it's running through into their room too.
Fuuuuuck ><
Hotel owner was really good about it, got a dehumidifier going and some fresh towels, and told me not to worry - while also mentioning that the carpet downstairs is only a few months old and cost a packet to install.
Fast forward to this morning and my rooms carpet is fine, but downstairs has to be replaced. It'll be an insurance job, but it's still getting charged out to the company I work for... Something tells me that this is gonna be the last time I work for them.
TL;DR: forgot I was filling the sink in my hotel room. Flooded my room and the room below me, costing the company I work for a tonne of money & making me feel like a right idiot.
Ive worked overnights at a hotel and have had this happen TWICE on a much worse scale. Dont feel too bad āŗļø
Ah dang that sucks. Glad it was just material damage (maybe your honour too?) and everyone is alright :-)
One time I flooded my toilet on my last morning, put down some towels as I was packing to leave, figured sorry for the maid but it was managed. Then I got a knock on the door from the front desk checking to see what was going on. They looked at my makeshift containment and said basically āok thanksā. I didnāt think too much of it until I walked downstairs and saw that my room was right over the breakfast coffee station and my toilet water had leaked out of the can light closing down breakfast. I walked straight out the door without checking out and can never stay at that hotel again!