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Quoted: I lived in East Burnaby for several months, about a thousand years ago. All I remember is, their hookers were the best dressed, best looking women I had seen to that point,(heir+1). Speaking of which, nowdays it's pretty hard to tell Vancouver from New Delhi! The Kobe was terrific and Gastown used to be fairly cool(+1). But, that was back when canuckanadian beer was something new and different...Beddy good, beddy good...beddybeddy goodgood.hr |
1+1+1= +3?
For the record- It's all twostages' fault, he took me up there, and except for the weakest cigarettes I've ever smoked in my life...I liked it.hr |
All-in-all I liked it as well.
Going across the border was interesting both ways.
U.S.-CAN: Went roughly like this....
CAN: ID Please
Hand her my DL.
CAN: WA driver's license and I see you have CA plates......whats the story there?
Me: Recently moved.
CAN: Do you have any other ID.
Me: No, I left my CA driver's license at home.
CAN: Do you own this vehicle?
Me: Yes.
CAN: What do you do?
Me: Nothing, I'm on an extended vacation.
CAN: How much money do you have on you?
Me: Not exactly sure, but less than $20 in cash.
CAN: You don't have more than $10,000.00 in U.S. currency on you do you? (huh?)
Me: Uhhh.....no.
CAN: What do you do for a living? (again?)
Me: Nothing, I just moved.
CAN: You don't have a job?
Me: Correct.
CAN: Where are you headed?
Me: Vancouver.
CAN: To do what, for what reason?
Me: Never been to Canada, wanted to check it out.
CAN: So you decided to wake up at 12 noon, and go to Canada?
Me: Actually I woke up around 8:30am.
CAN: Uh huh....
Me: I tried to go yesterday (Sun) but was sidetracked.
CAN: How long have you been living in WA?
Me: A couple weeks.
CAN: Who does this car belong to? (Again?)
Me: Me.
CAN: Are you in any trouble with the law?
Me: No.
CAN: Any convictions?
Me: No.
CAN: Ever been in front of a Judge?
Me: Yes.
CAN: Why?
Me: Traffic violations, years back.
CAN: What kind(s), any DUI's ever?
Me: Speeding, and no, never.
CAN: Hmmmm......
She takes a moment to make some sort of a decision...
CAN: Here is you driver's license.
Me: Thank ya.
CAN: Drive safely.
Or maybe that is standard precedure, I dunno.
CAN-U.S.
Not one, but two border patrol agents, went very similar to this:
BPA: Driver's license please.
He looks it over and hands it back.
BPA: I see you have a camera there, what are you taking pictures of?
(I got the immediate impression that they don't like a camera being within a casual arm's reach of your person when in your car and crossing the border)
Me: My country's border station and it's upstanding BPA's. Is that a bad idea?
BPA: Yes, not a very good thing to do.
BPA: Where are you coming from?
Me: Vancouver.
BPA: What were you doing there?
Me: Just visting our neighbor to the north. Never been before. (I guess I said somthing wrong.)
BPA: Shut off your car and give me the keys.
So I give him the keys and he hands them to the other BPA.
BPA: It'll be just a moment he is going to search the trunk of your car.
(I'm thanking myself for remebering to take my Savage rifle out of there 2 days before.)
I can hear the other BPA rummaging around, finally tells the other BPA it's clean, and hands me back my keys.
BPA: Here you go, welcome back.
Me: Thank ya.
I am very pleased that our BPA's are that thorough at the Canadian border, they must be 10X as
thorough at the Mexican border. Or at least I hope.
-z