Peace bridge......
started my week getting on the red eye destined for Toronto... 10 am meeting in Buffalo New York and I am reluctant to forfeit my weekend for sleep and peace.
The day starts at 12 30 am in the security line up in Calgary where I forfeited I can of shaving cream, one tube of toothpaste, one tube of hair gel and four deodorant bars.. I have mortal fear of body odor and so I stash then in my briefcase, my bag and obviously "I was carrying"
I had assumed that on the other side of security you could still buy a bottle of diet coke... nope... nada... even at the Air Canada lounge they are paying a woman to stand there and pour the sodas into your glass from a diet coke can...
I rent the car drive to buffalo and get ready for the border.. usually this is easy...today I am sure the ernest young American customs officer put extra tacks in his shoes so he could be more miserable all day.. Of course I was driving a rental car that says Avis... "who owns the car...Avis.. is it a rental yes..is this your car...? " I purposely show him my drivers license and birth certificate showing me to be a home grown Canadian boy and not have him rifle through my passport and see the brazillian (no jokes) and the mexican adventures.
Eventually he lets me go and gets the full grimace on for the next visitor...
on the return trip to Canada..I got the college student with the summer job and the winsome smile.... breezy baby... welcome back to Canada..big smile ..making me wish I was 22 again... ( yes I know at 22 I would have not had the guts to ask her out and ...really... she probably would have said... 'are you kidding?" ) but alas...
worked all week in the area... got home this morning at 130 am....this is corporate travel...
at security in Toronto they failed to find my last deodorant stick... got bumped up to snobby class....woman my age beside me had no interest in talking...
a wasted week... I need something fun
posted by hockeyman @ 8:27 AM
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