re: #92 ckkatz

Good to hear that things were fairly tame.

And yes, loud unidentifiable noises, where one real option is gunshots, can be a pucker factor. At least for me.

Probably the most surreal hotel visit I have ever had was at a cousins wedding in Ocean City, Maryland.

There was a NASCAR race in nearby Delaware. Which led to a lot of fans staying in large numbers per room. And they were not examples of high fashion.

There was also a deputy sheriffs’ convention going on at the same time. And there was convention for llama related businesses in the lobby.

When I turned into the parking lot, past groups of less than sober men, saw that it was full of police cars and uniformed deputy sheriffs, then saw someone walking a llama, I knew that it would be a very different kind of weekend.

Yeah, when I worked at the beach, the sales dept was sane enough to only ever book one event at a time. Though that did bring a varied and interesting schedule, as one week might be an annual bridge tournament (nice folks), the next would involve a middle/high school sports group (GAH!!!), and then following week after that might be a family throwing a quinceañera (very friendly, if a little loud). The one group I actually looked forward to annually were the Shriners, since they were always well-behaved, friendly, and the worst you dealt with was one or two drunks playing poker into the late hours in the convention hall.