Don't open the window!

Okay, so it's a crappy photo taken with the camera on my phone. It works, though.

But I wanted to open the window in my hotel room, so I called the front desk to ask about it. Apparently, guests in this hotel are not supposed to open their own windows -- if you want them open, you call the desk and they'll send housekeeping up to do it. My room is on the second floor of the hotel, and my window has a wonderful view of one other wall of windows and two walls. There's a roof or something about eight inches below my window (you can see it in the background of the photo). So I can't figure out the need for someone to give me help - it's not like I can fall out (as you can see, there are also bars on the window - there is a space under the bars big enough that I could crawl out if I wanted to) and die or anything.

I'd initially wondered (this being the Big City) if we were supposed to not open the windows because there were rats that would crawl in (eww), but I guess they are okay to open (I will close it when it gets dark, because I'm just that paranoid).

I told the front desk "nevermind," and opened the damn thing myself. I'm a rebel. Whee.