Wake up in the morning and open your hotel door, and hey, isn’t that nice, the hotel provided a copy of the local morning paper to each room. Something to read at breakfast, and at least it’s not USA Today.
The top headline on the paper reads “Reno casino gains extra time to restructure debt“, which sound local, boring, and innocuous, until you realize the “casino” they’re talking about is the hotel you’re staying at, and the “extra time” is two more weeks getting to March 15, which means the previous deadline was, uh, yesterday? The hotel you’re staying in is on the verge of bankruptcy?
I don’t know exactly what happens when a hotel goes bankrupt, but it conjured up visions of us all being thrown out into the street with our luggage, while the sherriff padlocked the front doors. However, the two weeks’ reprieve granted by the Securities and Exchange Commission (not sure why they’re involved) evidently prevented that from happening, so we still had our reading sessions and stuff.
That sure didn’t help breakfast go down any easier, though.
Allen H Simon says
Peggy Dettwiler says
I was awakened early by a knock at the door, and I rose from a horizontal to vertical position and greeted Celia Finestone and Joan Berresford at my door. They were definitely not looking their normal, cheeky selves. It would appear that the hotel we were staying at in Wrexham, northeast of Llangollen, had been “seized” for financial issues and we were being put out to the curb, without warning, without breakfast, and needed to leave the premises by 9am. The last time I left a building that quickly was when it was on fire! To quote Shakespeare, “Thou crusty batch of nature!” “Detested Parasites!” One of the choristers was actually on the phone with his father at about 1:30am and saw them loading furniture into a truck. However, all’s well that ends well: soloists took a taxi to the competition, the rest of us packed out and broke our fast at the festival grounds, we rushed back to the solo competition, and prepared for the afternoon performance of the choir.
Steven Grives says
I’m sure you received a great rate on the rooms.