I looked up again and looked around to see if I could spot a license plate like mine. Nothing.
I put the note in my pocket, forgot about it, and drove around a while looking for something to do. Most of the area I’m in was still on fairly strict lockdown then, so I headed back around dinner time. When I got back I noticed quite a few cars in the restaurant parking lot across the street from the hotel and decided to take my chances. As it turned out they were serving dinner on their “heated” patio. That was my first bad decision of the night.
The food was delicious, but the heaters on the patio were mounted to the top of one of those makeshift dining room tents and weren’t exactly uniform in their ability to warm the space. By the time I finished, my head and shoulders were nice and toasty, but I had to walk back to my room on two frozen popsicle legs. I noticed room 124 as I made my way back to my room and then remembered the note. So, I decided to stop in and say hi.
At this point in the story there are three pieces of information I had that you should be aware of.