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Yesterday morning I woke up in Bermuda. It was very early but it was Bermuda.The hotel was quiet as I loaded my bags into a cab and headed off to the airpport. The two hour flight to New York was on time. I saw and spoke to a couple of peolpe I knew and cursed the fact that I had not checked my itinery and was flying to JFK rather than Newark. Landing at JFK mean a $250 taxi ride to the godforsaken lands of New Jersey. Luckily the traffic wasn't too bad as we cut across Manhatten and headed out onto I95.
The Hilton East Brunswick is clearly visible from the interstate but finding the entrance to the hotel is more difficult. We eventually managed it and I entered the montrosity. The garish lobby area was heaving with humanity in all its various forms. I checked in amd went to my room. Of the four lifts only two were out of order (although subsequently the other two have failed at different times). My room is on the 15th floor with a panoramic view of the freeway. I needed to get out for a while.
It was cold and wet. I asked at te front desk where there was within walking distance. I was told that there was no where one could go without driving. $30 to the nearest Mall by taxi. 10 screens at the cinema and nothign worth watching. I saw "Law Abiding Citizen" so that you don't have to. 30 minute wait for a cab back to the hotel. Crap television and sleep. I woke, showered and went for breakfast.
That's when I saw it.
This hotel is hosting a preteen beauty pagent. The restaurant was full of 9 year old children in curlers accompanied by morbidly obese mothers.
My scrambled eggs almost hit the carpet.
This evening 450 reinsurance people come into the hotel for a four day conference at which I am speaking tomorrow. I haev around 48 meetings, lunches, dinners and breakfasts between this evening and Wednesday night and my escape to New york. However ghastly reinsurance types are, they will be a sight for sore eyes after the diabolical vision of this morning.
It is pissing with rain and I am staying in my room.