"Mr. Agness, what time will you be checking out?"
That was the phone call I just received.
Here I am sound asleep... at 11:00 a.m. because, of course we had been teaching class all night, from 9:30 p.m. last night to 6:30 a.m. this morning. Come back to the hotel, have breakfast, check email, and go to bed.
Ring, ring. Ring, ring.
"Why is there a phone ringing in my dream?" "Wait, that's not a dream. That's a real phone!"
It turned out to be the hotel front desk asking me what time I was checking out today. Well, I wasn't, because I had been told that I had a reservation through the 20th, next Monday. We would just come back to the hotel after work, eat a nice breakfast, and leisurely check out that morning and then transfer to another hotel in another part of the city.
Such was not to be the case. The hotel has me checking out today, and there are no rooms available. (Did you know that President Bush is coming to visit Hyderabad? And that THIS HOTEL is where they will be staying?) I very sleepily answer the nice gentleman's questions but No means No in any language.
There was "no room in the inn" but they would give me four hours. So I hung up and dug through my papers to find my travel itinerary. I found it and called the number only to find out it was not a working number. Hmm, it was printed on an official paper from American Express Travel only just nine days ago. Oh well, change happens fast in today's world.
I found another number for American Express Travel on another paper and dialed it. Who knows HOW much this call is going to cost? A very nice lady named Nina helped me and transferred me to Lynn, in Dearborn Michigan.
Well, it is now 1:02 in the afternoon and I've been up for two hours in the middle of what should be my nighttime sleep hours. Sheraton says my reservation has been canceled, but they don't know by whom. I have a printed paper from the website showing a reservation and a confirmation number through the 20th, but when you go to that website now there is nothing at all: no flight, no hotel, no nothing.
Lynn called me back and the hotel has no rooms for me tonight, but they do have rooms for tomorrow night through the 20th. "All I have to do" is find a room for tonight. Somewhere. Uh, sure.
:)
I'll keep you posted. As we say, "Details at eleven..."
Class is not gonna be pretty tonight.
:(
Here I am sound asleep... at 11:00 a.m. because, of course we had been teaching class all night, from 9:30 p.m. last night to 6:30 a.m. this morning. Come back to the hotel, have breakfast, check email, and go to bed.
Ring, ring. Ring, ring.
"Why is there a phone ringing in my dream?" "Wait, that's not a dream. That's a real phone!"
It turned out to be the hotel front desk asking me what time I was checking out today. Well, I wasn't, because I had been told that I had a reservation through the 20th, next Monday. We would just come back to the hotel after work, eat a nice breakfast, and leisurely check out that morning and then transfer to another hotel in another part of the city.
Such was not to be the case. The hotel has me checking out today, and there are no rooms available. (Did you know that President Bush is coming to visit Hyderabad? And that THIS HOTEL is where they will be staying?) I very sleepily answer the nice gentleman's questions but No means No in any language.
There was "no room in the inn" but they would give me four hours. So I hung up and dug through my papers to find my travel itinerary. I found it and called the number only to find out it was not a working number. Hmm, it was printed on an official paper from American Express Travel only just nine days ago. Oh well, change happens fast in today's world.
I found another number for American Express Travel on another paper and dialed it. Who knows HOW much this call is going to cost? A very nice lady named Nina helped me and transferred me to Lynn, in Dearborn Michigan.
Well, it is now 1:02 in the afternoon and I've been up for two hours in the middle of what should be my nighttime sleep hours. Sheraton says my reservation has been canceled, but they don't know by whom. I have a printed paper from the website showing a reservation and a confirmation number through the 20th, but when you go to that website now there is nothing at all: no flight, no hotel, no nothing.
Lynn called me back and the hotel has no rooms for me tonight, but they do have rooms for tomorrow night through the 20th. "All I have to do" is find a room for tonight. Somewhere. Uh, sure.
:)
I'll keep you posted. As we say, "Details at eleven..."
Class is not gonna be pretty tonight.
:(
posted by Roger Agness @ 1:49 AM
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