It's Thanksgiving night. David gets a message from his office that he needs to go to an urgent business meeting the next day. They are sorry that he has to leave his family, but itβs crucial, and they will set him up in a nice hotel room for his troubles.
David reluctantly agrees, not really wanting to miss the time with his kids, and he catches a flight to Minneapolis first thing the next morning. When he arrives at the hotel to check in, the front desk clerk hands him a large brown envelope. There are no markings on it. He has no idea what it is. The clerk just winks and says, βIt was left for you by a lady.β What kind of business meeting is this, David wonders.
David walks over to a private corner to open the envelope. In it is a card key, a blindfold, and a note. All the note says is, "Go to room 223, take a shower, relax. Then put on the blindfold and wait." The note is not signed, but David is hoping for it to be from someone in particular. Not wanting to disobey the instructions, he heads right up to the room. David takes a long, hot shower. All his muscles ache from the flight. When he gets out of the shower, he can't decide whether to get dressed or not. David finally decides that he ought to get dressed, since he has no idea what is going to happen. Who knows? A whole bunch of people could be waiting to surprise him. But David puts on the blindfold, just like the instructions say...