About 15 years ago i got last minute notice
to attend a meeting in NYC. Corp travel
insisted that there were no rooms available
in or near NYC. I told my secretary to
start digging ... and that i would phone
her when i arrived at EWR.

She had found a motel in Newark; a no-name
operation ... Sagamore sticks in my mind,
but I may indeed be in error re: the name.
it is certainly not a nice area. I park
and enter the 'office' area and find that
the clerk safely hidden behind a bullet
proof security cage with locking/rotating pass-throughs and a scratchy intercom system.

I hand over my credit card and mutter, "one
adult, one night." Without missing a beat,
she asks, "all night?"

-doug