During our recent stay in a motel in Detroit, I was looking out the window into the parking lot when I heard someone deactivating their car alarm. Moments later, I saw a man running in the rain for the car. He hopped in and shut the door. An instant later, the “boom boom” of the radio started.

Now, I assumed that the man was getting ready to leave, but no. He sat there for maybe 5 minutes. Then the radio stopped and the man ran back into the hotel.

Since Michigan has banned smoking in public places and since it was raining, I figured that he must have been out there for a cigarette. Yeah, right.