It was the day of event and by noon the phone bell starts ringing to inform about the last minute DROP OUT PLAN. As the host needs to humble and keep listening to the excuses but behind the mind the calculator starts rolling. As this point the hotel is done with the cooking, the furniture is already in place so no way the amount is going to get refunded. Might be if this call was made a couple of days prior somewhere in this universe little food, little fuel and little more money would have been saved.
