"Fluffy" Pillows at Wingate by Wyndham??

Went to Fayetteville to teach some CPAs. Arrived at the Wingate by Wyndham Hotel. Great room promising "fluffy" pillows. I should have noticed that the 4 "fluffy" pillows were standing edge-up at attention side by side on the bed, like a full-dress Marine Honor Guard. After a 4-hour drive, I lay down and got consussion. OMG. The Washington Monument is fluffier than these pillows which are about 12 inches high and with the texture of concrete. This was obviously the artificially staged room used for shooting misleading advertising photographs. You know, like the plastic burgers and salads they use for advertising food that you can never actually experience. I called housekeeping to ask for some pillows that you can actually rest your head on. "Sorry, that's all we have," I was was told. "Has anyone actually managed to sleep on these torture-blocks," I asked. Obviously not - the last victims are still undergoing surgery for severe head and neck trauma. After two hours of torture, a blinding headache and neckache drove me across the street to the Courtyard by Marriott at 2am. "This is a strange request, but do you think I might borrow a couple of your pillows" I asked. "I'll return them in the morning IF I wake up." After convincing these folk that I wasn't a wino, hophead or total lunatic, I staggered back to the Wingate clutching my 2 pillows, trying to avoid the hard stare and raised eyebrows of a local trooper on his way home from the local coffee and donut emporium. Blissful sleep at last, albeit for just a couple of hours. Just another example of advertising sizzle without the steak. If some genie ever offered me a wish, I'd wish that every advertising and marketing agency were forced to actually use the products and services they so fervently and blindly promote.

Xidho ama xoola waa!

USA Today reports that we have so many Somali refugees living in the USA, that we have to start translating stuff. First is the "Click It or Ticket" seat-belt signs. Because Somalia has no government, the concept of getting a ticket is totally foreign to them, so a translation of "Click it or ticket" doesn't work. Instead, the warning is "Strap it or lose your livestock!" Not sure how effective a warning to Muslims to "Strap it or get 72 virgins!" would be.