Learning Web 2.0

Thursday night I checked into the Union Station hotel in Indy. When checking in the front desk person let me know, “This is an active train station. Your room should be far enough from the tracks, but you may notice some noise or vibration and we just let patrons know that if you hear anything or feel any vibrations, that it is not a hurricane.”

I said, “You mean an earthquake.”

She said laughingly, “Yes. Not an earthquake and definitely not a hurricane.”

So on Friday morning at around 5:30 Indy time, I was probably the most relaxed person in the Midwest when I was awakened by the vibration and noise of the the closet doors in the hotel room. Not until I turned on the TV around 6:30, did I hear the morning news person say earthquake. I just started laughing and changed the channel and sure enough they were telling about the earthquake as well. 

I always thought that it was tornados, that sound just like a train.

It still makes me laugh.  It was an earthquake, but I just thought it was a train.

I think the hotel will need to need to retrain their front desk personnel and what they tell people when checking in.