An alert reader of Getting a Room -- privacy concerns prevent my naming him -- noted that I had Bill & Carolyn using a McDonald's that Evanston didn't have then. He looked it up, and the franchise did not even exist yet. I've changed it to a totally-fictitious firm. Why it's OK to have a fictitious firm but not a firm not yet operating is something I can't explain, but I feel it quite deeply. If you're in the middle of reading the story, some of the later parts will feel a little strange.