Grand California Fire

[lindyhop]

Originally Posted by Prudence

So, it's a week before my trip and so far my airline has had a plane departing from my airport with a hole in it that caused loss of cabin pressure and my hotel has caught fire.

I'm not sure if this means I'm jinxed and my trip is cursed or I'm blessed and all the available misfortunes have already happened.

Prudence, you haven't lived if you haven't had the opportunity to wander around outside a hotel in the middle of the night in your jammies. I was staying at a hotel in Pasadena a few years ago and was awakened by the god awful sound of the fire alarm and a flashing strobe light. This was November 2001 so with 9/11 in mind I figured I should take it seriously and wandered outside with everyone else. There we all were, shivering on the sidewalk, in various states of dress and whatever. Amazing what people wear to bed.

It turned out to be a false alarm, someone had been messing with the alarm in their room and set it off. We could go back to our rooms almost right away but the noise was unbearable. It took the fire department at least an hour to fix things so the alarm would go off and we could all get back to sleep.