Cairo Reporter: Chutzpah

To bring up my friend Dan again, he impressed me a number of times with his self-confident chutzpah. In particular, he got a room key to someone else's room in the Marriot. No, not Dick Cheney's room, our own room, where Dan was staying, but illegally. The method? Walk up to the counter, ask for the key. They ask if the room's under your name. You say, "it should be. Dan Quintal, Northeastern University." Apparently, NU was written somewhere in the reservation, because Dan's NUID earned us a pair of keys. Of course, these are the same people who gave away the Big Dick's room number, which says something... I'm not sure what, but it says something.