This weekend I was staying at a Days Inn in Muncie, IN, and I’m a little puzzled. First of
all, the advertisement at the front desk for frequent-stay rewards makes a big
deal about how rewards can be earned (or possibly redeemed, I didn’t really
look that closely) at some number of retailers. One of the retailers was
Canadian Tire, which is a logo you don’t see much of in Indiana.
If that’s not weird enough, in the hotel guide in the room they give a
brief list of local radio stations… only it’s not really local stations. In
fact, all of the call letters begin with “C”, and some of them — CFRB, for
instance, or CHUM, or CFNY aka “The Edge” — are very familiar to me from when I lived
in Toronto. Did someone do a cheap photocopy from a Days Inn Scarborough or
something?