At the beginning of our Chun Jie (Chinese New Year) vacation we stayed at a hotel for one night before catching our connecting flight to our vacation destination.  We slept in two shabby (but comfortable) rooms, amounting to a few beds and a bathroom.  As we were packing up, getting ready to leave for the airport, I noticed a A4 sized, yellow laminated, paper stuck to the back of our door.  As I read a few of the ridiculous rules, my family and I were soon in fits of laughter!   First, the rule on food, fruit and pets:  'Food, fruits, and pets are strictly prohibited'.  I can understand the pet part, but food and fruits?!  You might be thinking, "Last time I checked a fruit is a food!", I was too.  How on earth can a hotel regulate whether or not customers have food in the room?!  It's a completely ridiculous rule!  Then there is the rule on souvenirs: 'Please do not take away the room items as souvenirs'.  Okay, who, in their right mind, would want to take anything from the rag-tag hotel room as a souvenir?  Seriously.   Now, on top of that, it lists the expenses of practically ALL the items in the room (PS: In the picture underneath, the prices are in RM (Malaysian Ringgit). 3RM = $1.00).  So, of those insane people wanting to take the hotel room junk, who would pay the money for those things?!  If you have enough money to buy their scratchy wool blankets, which was 100RM (~$35), from the hotel for a souvenir  then I think you would have enough money to lodge at a nicer hotel!  For instance, "Honey, why don't you grab that tray for a souvenir from this hotel! I don't mind paying 20RM!"  Then come the more unusual but totally humorous rules:  'Turning TV channels are strictly prohibited'.  For a room with a tiny TV hanging from the ceiling the last thing I would want to do as a hotel manager is draw attention to it by making ridiculous rules!  How would they find out or "punish" the customer if the TV channel was changed?  "I'm sorry, but you changed the channel from National Geographic to HBO, you will have to pay an extra fee."  It makes me laugh just think about it!  In any country, that is not your own, you will find parts of the culture, language cross overs, or language barriers more humoring than you would ever imagine.