Had a flight from IAD to DTW delayed because a passenger on the inbound leg put her guitar in the first class closet (can't remember which kind of plane it was), and the guitar shifted during the flight and jammed the closet door shut. As we were waiting for them to start boarding my flight, we started out getting updates from the gate agent, and then the inbound pilot, and eventually the outbound pilot.

The timeline went something like "the passenger tried to get it out, then the flight attendants tried to get it out, then the pilot tried to get it out, then the gate agent went down and tried to get it out., and then the new pilot tried to get it out"

An hour and 40 minutes after our scheduled departure, they got a mechanic on board and he also couldn't get the door open to get the guitar out. Eventually, they said that the mechanic chopped the door open with a fire axe. That got the guitar out, but then we had to wait while he replaced the door because they couldn't have a door flopping around unsecured during flight.

We were about 2.5 hours late departing, which caused me to miss both my original connection and the last flight out from DTW to PDX. So Delta was kind enough to put me up overnight in a perfectly lovely Day's Inn in Romulus - which had my room number attached to the door with literal Scotch tape, a stain the size of a dinner plate in the carpet outside the door (which looked disturbingly like blood), and a couch in the 2nd floor elevator lobby that had no cushions on the sitting part, just a piece of 3/4" plywood where you would sit.

I suppose the takeaway from the whole experience is that I don't let airlines book my room when there's a delay anymore. If things start looking like I am going to spend the night somewhere unexpected, I'll book my own room and try to get reimbursed later.