Holding a cell phone to my ear, a rooster kept crowing in the background while I made hotel reservations for an impromptu jaunt later this month.
A rooster? Really. I was speaking to a reservationist for Hilton/Hampton properties. I didn’t expect to hear a rooster crowing his head off. I looked at the clock; it was 6 p.m. Roosters normally crow in the morning, don’t they?
When the arrangements were …