HereForTheBeer: Stupid scratchy hotel towels! Too thin to dry you off, too small from having spent a bajillion cycles in the industrial dryer, and scratchy as hell.
F4LL0UT: Guess they have to make them so crappy to keep people from stealing them.
No, it shows you stay in the cheap hotels. Whenever I stay in the more expensive hotels, the towels are usually thicker than the ones I have at home. The cheap to average hotels have the ones you describe.
HereForTheBeer: Because there's a time-limit and other restrictions on that stuff. No guarantee that it would get wiped from the ledger.
I think it's like 60 days...if you don't check your statements every 60 days then you really need to change that. I check mine at least every week. It's especially important to do that if you travel a lot.
Thankfully, I've never had a purchase that I didn't make, but I am vigilant about checking to make sure.