Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Link
Date: Sep 16, 2000 @ 16:58
Author: michael donner (michael donner <m@...>)
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you are the amazing ones brian

this is gorgeous stuff

multi kudos

>Not just in Europe. When Gregg and I crossed from Canada into the US
>at Estcourt Station, Maine there appeared to be nobody at the US
>Customs house (which I believe might have been a log cabin). So we
>waited under the little carport for 5 minutes or so and then walked
>around the house to see if we could find anyone. I saw the customs
>officer (a young woman) in the kitchen washing dishes. When she saw
>me she said "Oh, sorry, I'll be right out." She was so happy to see
>other human beings that she invited us in to see her cats and
>generally shoot the breeze for twenty minutes. It turns out she
>lives at the customs house. She was recently discharged from the
>Marines where she was stationed at Camp Pendleton just north of San
>Diego. I think she is have trouble adjusting to the bright lights of
>Estcourt Station.

i wonder was she la txus the last marine


>
>Then on the way back into Canada a similar performance ensued. We
>waited in the Canadian carport for 5 minutes or so (this time it was
>a real house, and I think people live there). Gregg finally got fed
>up with waiting and started looking for a doorbell, but he
>accidentally pushed an alarm button that set off an incredibly loud
>klaxon. This brought the customs man and his two young sons running
>from the house next door where they were eating lunch with the
>grandparents. They were laughing and said "Haha, everybody does
>that." Haha, those crazy lovable French. Anyway, the kids were
>quite interested in our "chiens" and this caused enough ruckus that
>the customs officer forgot to ask us any of the normal customs
>questions. Instead he gave us helpful directions for finding the
>norther tip of Maine, which involves an unauthorized trip back into
>the US. But this is where houses are divided by the international
>boundary and people cross it to put out their trash, so I think there
>was little risk of creating an international incident.
>
>BJB
>
>--- In BoundaryPoint@egroups.com, michael donner <m@d...> wrote:
>> >Perhaps an interesting link.
>> >
>> >Jesper
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>> quote
>> persons from outside the eu countries have to carry a passport & are
>> supposed to report to border officials
>> if they can find them
>>
>> hahahahahahahaha
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>> a hahah hahaaaahahaaaahaha
>> etc
>> etc
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