A friend of mine came to town this afternoon and was put up at a rarely cleaned urine smelling <s>half way house </s>“hotelâ€ courtesy of the quality talk show she is appearing on tomorrow.  (She’s taping her show this week - next week they are doing a story on serial killers… who will probably find it to be very home like at that <s>hotel </s>property.)

Thankfully while eating at <a href="http://www.myspace.com/fredsnyc"><font color="#0000ff">Fred’s</font></a> last night, her calls were returned and she moved from her “Deluxe Roomâ€ at the Hotel Newton where she complained about hair all over her bathroom floor and they responded “What color was it?â€

(Exhibit A taken with my camera phone will be posted here in the morning)
to a $700 room at the Doubletree. (Yes, I really said $700 and Doubletree in the same sentence, I don’t understand it either.)

<a href="http://www.savvymommy.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/victoria719/th_NYCDTDT_Doubletree_Metropolitan_Hot.jpg" border="0" alt="It may be $500 more a night than it should be but at least it is clean"/></a>
 (Photo from the Doubletree Lexington Avenue website)
It may be $500 more a night than it should be but at least now she has clean sheets and when I arrive with bagels in the morning her feet will not have fallen off because of hungry critters in the middle of the night.