I was staying at a hotel in a small town, near a large city. My room was upstairs on the front, overlooking the street. The noise from below finally died down, but I still was unable to sleep for a long time. Late in the night, I was startled by a man pounding on the door downstairs. I heard voices, and I could tell the manager was talking with this man about needing a room. As I listened closer, I learned that it was a man and his wife. They had come a long way. The young wife was expecting a child any moment. They needed a place to stay.

The manager of the hotel explained to them how all the rooms had already been taken. There was an unusual amount of tourists for that time of the year. Many of them were on business, in town for the same reason I was. There simply was no place for the c…