So we stayed over at a Howard Johnson's Motel on a recent trip shuttling our Grandson. I didn't even know they were still around. About 4:30 a.m. I heard some creaking and thumping in the room above. It lasted about 3 minutes and stopped. I snickered. Then it happened again, and then a third time.Wow, I thought, somebody's got it going on. It sparked a moment of passion, so I curled up next to my wife. Our Grandson was asleep in the other bed. She whispered, "Do you hear that?" "Well yeah", I whispered back. She said, "It sounds like an elephant is stomping around." In fact the thumping was moving around the ceiling. "I'll bet they're in a hurry to get on the road", she said. Now two people hearing exactly the same thing with two completely different pictures in mind. I pictured a young athletic couple in a fit of passion wearing out the furniture. She pictured an overweight couple late to get on the road, having overslept. Then our Grandson wakes up. He thinks it is a kid jumping on the beds back and forth, at 4:30 in the morning? I laughed, Candy slapped me, and we all went back to sleep.
