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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Fergs_Throwaway on 2025-12-11 03:25:12+00:00.
So my wife and I are staying at a nice hotel in Old Montreal this week.
Our room has one of those jet tubs, and tonight she went to take a bath. She fills it up, hits the button… nothing. No jets. No sound. No click. Just a sad, expensive, oversized bowl of warm water.
She calls me in because “you’re the engineer, figure it out” (which is always how this starts). I check the button, the panel, the tub -nothing. So I think maybe the GFCI tripped? Maybe it’s unplugged? The access panel is hidden behind this little corner shelf, so I carefully lift it to peek behind......and immediately regretted every decision that led me to that moment.
The tub motor was unplugged (intentionally?) and right next to it was a very, uhhhh... personal item someone had clearly left behind.
Not like “dropped behind the bed and forgotten.”
More like “this was intentionally stashed here during a previous stay and absolutely should never have been rediscovered.”
I mean the size of this thing gave me anxiety lol
We let the front desk know very politely, because this definitely wasn’t the fault of the staff. They were actually super professional about it - apologized, sent someone up immediately, handled everything, and even comped a few amenities for the trouble.
But man…wtf
I was just trying to fix the jets lol
TL;DR: Wife tried to take a bath, jets didn’t work, I checked behind the access panel and found the tub unplugged… and a forgotten adult artifact someone left next to the motor. Hotel handled it great, my desire to DIY bathtub repairs is permanently gone.