BELLMEN HATE YOUR SUITCASE-BUT NOT BECAUSE IT'S HEAVY. - Hotel Secrets from Behind the Front Desk

Bernard Sadow: the man all bellmen hate, though they've never heard his name. In 1970, he invented the wheeled suitcase, the bane of the bellman's existence. Before that, the bellman was a necessity, a provider of ease and comfort, a useful member of society. When Sadow sold his first prototype to Macy's in October 1970, he instigated a catastrophic change in the hospitality environment, causing the once noble species to retreat, rethink, and reemerge as a hustler fighting for survival. Sadow might as well have invented the phrase no bellman wants to hear, the phrase that leaves bills unpaid and ruins Christmas: "No, thanks, I got it." Or that surprisingly prevalent and ignorant phrase: "I don't want to bother him." Don't want to bother him? The man has a family. No one is being bothered here!