About 18 years ago my friend Eric and I drove a University owned van across the Detroit-Windsor border to pick up a crew from UBC and SFU who were attending a conference at our school. We were wearing suits (and mirrored shades) that we thought made us look exectutive. We probably looked more like low-level mob enforcers. The UBC-SFU gang were, as usual, wearing t-shirts and levis. Customs stopped us and quizzed us for perhaps 20 minutes as we attempted to convince them that this was not a van full of migrant farm laborers, despite their appearance, or European refugees, but a group of skilled technical staff from two Canadian Universities. We were finally admitted into the country, and just as we started to pull away from the customs booth, Dave (last name omitted) yelled from the back of the van, in a thick Irish brogue, "Uncle Huey! We got ye in!!" Eric gunned the motor and we disappeared into the downtown Detroit traffic. mike -------------------------- Michael Edelman mje_at_spamcop.net http://foldingkayaks.org http://findascope.com http://kittysaysmoo.com *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sat Apr 23 2005 - 06:15:02 PDT
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