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Abby returned home, and let her mind leave the confined realm of the NCIS lab so that it could wander into uncharted territory.
She took a close look at the casket she slept in. She wondered if she was the only person on the face of the planet who genuinely enjoyed sleeping in a casket or if there were others who shared her preference. What if there were other people who enjoyed sleeping in caskets?
Then Abby got an idea. What if there was a hotel where you could sleep in a casket?
It was an idea worth exploring. Maybe the day would come when she would no longer be working at NCIS. Maybe she would really mess up a case and get canned. Another more likely possibility is that she would quit because solving crimes had become too easy for her. It never hurts to have a plan B, does it?
She turned her computer on and began researching hotels. Eventually she ran across a Forbes article about Japanese capsule hotels. The capsules had storage lockers, and radios and TV screens in some instances. Also, the bathrooms were communal, like locker rooms at a gym or swimming pool. The best part was the price. You could stay in a Japanese capsule hotel for just $30 a night.
A casket would be even better than a Japanese capsule. There would be incoming light, making it easier to sleep, and the casket would be excellent for suppressing the sounds of the outside world.
If her idea was to become a reality, it would undoubtedly have to be extremely practical. She would have to rent an empty lot in an outdoor shopping center. It would probably only accommodate no more than 100 guests. And the only people who would want to stay in such a hotel would be people on solitary vacations or business trips. Couples and families would not like Abby's idea.
Now it was time to experiment.
First, she took a battery-powered boombox and set it inside her casket. Next, she turned the volume up all the way and slammed the lid. Standing outside the casket, the boombox was barely audible.
Next, she attached a tablet computer to the lid of her casket with duct tape. She climbed in and closed the lid. The calculator, word processor and sketch programs all worked just fine. But the casket completely blocked Wi-Fi reception. Maybe she could design custom caskets that had tablet computers that linked to Wi-Fi attenas outside the casket. A better idea would be to have a portable TV built into the casket that was connected to an external attena. Then again, there were several hotels without TV, such as the Biras Creek Resort in the Virgin Islands.
She decided to do a little market research. She looked up 100 addresses in the phone book and wrote up 100 envelopes for those addresses. In each envelope was a one-page survey sheet with the following questions, along with a return envelope:
Would you stay in a hotel where you sleep in a casket instead of a hotel room?
Why or why not?
What amenities should such a hotel have?
Please answer Abby's questions should you choose to write a review.
