I just received the following question via email from someone booking a hotel room for me in NYC for mid-November. I have never been faced with such a perplexingly unimportant (nor obnoxious) question in my life. Any ideas on how to respond?

One last question: what type of pillow do you prefer to sleep on, buckwheat, hypo-alergenic or swedish memory?

Good God. There are children dying of hunger, and you’re asking me to decide between buckwheat and swedish!?