I wrote this when I was in Illinois last week but it did not post for some reason (but it stayed on my travel laptop). Here it is. Like an episode of Seinfeld. I arrived at the hotel (which has a French name that it does not deserve) in Illinois on Tuesday night, and my host and I asked about the reservation. There was a reservation indeed. But there was a delay in giving me the key: we inquired when we saw a number of staffer huddling and whispering and discussing between different room. We were told that there is indeed a reservation but that there was no room. I asked why is that? He said: because it is on first-come-first-serve basis. I asked if this was the case, why the reservation then? Apparently the reservation does not guarantee you a room but merely gives you a spot on the list of first-come-first-serve. I am leaving now having learned of hotels of Norman, Ill's hospitality what I knew not before.