Bill Leonhardt wrote: > It is a good policy to allow extra time going through the gate (especially > in Japan) for the people there to play with your toys. They certainly > don't care that you're in a hurry. > Not only Japan, but anywhere. I once picked up Alan Carruth at SeaTac airport who was a guest speaker at the 1995 Guild of American Luthiers convention in Tacoma and his baggage got red flagged through the metal detectors. Inside, he had three beautiful, handmade wooden planes which was integral to his talk on carving guitar braces. None of the three security people had ever seen anything like this and our explanations as to their function wasn't going over too good, until a fourth securtiy gal came over and said "oh, my grandpa had some of these he would make furniture with". Then they all had to admire them while I just wanted to get out of there and beat the morning rush hour traffic. -Nick *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sat Mar 04 2000 - 19:16:50 PST
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