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Today I went for a swim and a sauna-session in one of the most luxorious hotels in Helsinki, the Hesperia Hotel. After trying to get into the sauna of the neighbouring hotel (unsuccessfully) and having a breakfast (successfully, if meagerly) I had an amazing time with the pool and sauna totally to myself. The experience of just lying around, lazing, in the pool, then going into this huge-but-intimate steaming-hot sauna and just lying around, naked....
...was interrupted by noise. A banging, of sorts.
So I headed into the changing room, and was hanging around, nicking swimming shorts and a towel, when the door opened. I was hiding behind a door, not feeling a tattoo and piercings would inspire trust in the cleaner-woman on the other side of the door.
"Excuse ME!" she goes, and explains that the sauna is most definitely closed. I punch out the practiced explanation (already checked out, just hanging around, leaving in a minute) and start getting dressed. She's obviously pissed at having to clean the sauna again, but doesn't get suspicious...
...until when I'm leaving with a nice smile, explaining that I didn't mean to make any trouble for her. She then asks me how I got in with the doors locked (which they weren't), and then finally asks for my room number. Fortunately, at this point I'm on my way out, up the stairs towards the exit. I just hear her indignant voice shouting to a colleague behind me: "Can you imagine the nerve, just walking in? GodDAMN!"
Ad I'm out through the revolving door, in the sunshine. Laughing, giddy, shaking.. biggest fun I've had since.. umm.. since the riots in Gothenburg, actually.
The Infiltration-magazine on the web, and similar ones on urban exploration, have been discussed in the Switchboard before, so what I'd like to ask is if anyone practices this stuff, if so, why, and is it a good or a bad idea? I'm right now considering other 'objects', so it's pretty sure this stuff is addictive..  |
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