Conventional Wisdom

(Historical Notes: Oh, DC Metro.  When you aren’t closing down too early for me to stay at a cheaper hotel farther away, you’re opening too late for me to avoid leaving my stuff in bag check.  You gotta keep in mind that parking at the hotel lots is so crazy expensive, like, I’m talking a whole extra room’s worth of expensive, that we’d park at a Metro lot down in Virginia and ride in.  Thus, my neurosis about stashing luggage in the van rather than checking it with the hotel ends up being a lot more complicated than just running across the street to a parking deck first thing in the morning.  Granted, this was a lot less annoying than my ordeal with the parking lot the previous year, but that was one of the reasons I was so over-eager to get out to the parking lot in the first place.  A guy just can’t win, ya know?)