[78-L] ARSC

[DanKj]

 Ironically ironic.  Or weirdly weird. You may enter my country and I may not (I can enter yours, but can't return - Canada 
has better taste than USA, obviously)!  That must protect me, but I cannot fathom how.

 I used to ride my bike over the bridge, to do gardening for an Irish and a Scots lady, in Fort Erie and Crystal Beach. 
Monday was Irish Day, and Wednesday was Scots Day - and both were very much the same. I'd haul myself across the Peace 
Bridge, up on the sidewalk & terrified the wind would blow me over the railing, then to peaceful Canuckistan and its back 
roads to my old ladies - one near the bridge, one a couple miles away. They'd load me with more work than possible, which I 
DID (being 22-25 helped) then come out & tsk over how hard I was working, offer beers and heavily buttered sandwiches, and 
want to chat.  Then they'd pay way more cash than I expected, every time. Bribery to make me come back again, probably. My 
slightly tipsy return trips are barely recalled.  I think all that butter lodged in my system, making me the fatso that I 
have become - or I just need bike trips to Canuckistan!

ps - I am now allowed to use the word "Canuck", because I've ancestors from the magic land of Canada.






----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 12:44 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] ARSC


> We don't NEED passports but they're better to have. Actually, my wife and I
> were advised back in the 90s that boarding international flights would go much
> more smoothly if we carried passports (still not required at that time) but we
> didn't apply for them till after 9/11..which, oddly enough, had been a day we'd
> been planning to go into the States. Border crossings are reasonably easy these
> days, except for the fact that with the Loonie (Canadian dollar) now above
> $1.05 US, Canuckistanians by the carloads are going over to shop in the US and
> jam up the bridges, and even with duties they're still saving money on a lot of
> things.
>
> dl
>
> On 5/4/2011 12:27 AM, DanKj wrote:
>>   I should be joining you at those, except that: a) I always work until at least 1pm on Sundays,  and b) I am not allowed
>> back into my own country of birth, because I haven't shelled-out for a passport or "enhanced" driver license. Odd that 
>> the
>> government doesn't trust its OWN identification process and license, but an extra $30 or $130 somehow means that I am not 
>> a
>> terrorist - if I'm on the ground. In a plane, now I need a passport.  I still don't know what they do with Americans who 
>> had
>> the nerve to go to Canada for lunch (which we used to do, all the time) and then try to get across the bridge again. 
>> Last
>> time I went, I took a pocketful of cash for Jeff Healey but had forgotten my wallet ... on the home crossing, the border 
>> guy
>> at Buffalo just looked up my Social Security number&  license plate on his 'puter, scolded me about having no ID, and 
>> waived
>> me through.
>>
>>
>> ps - Do Canucks need a passport?  I thought we had treaties which said Merricans and Canucks don't need passports to 
>> cross
>> ...
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>
>>> Toronto actually plays host to a large group of record and phonograph
>>> collectors via CAPS (Canadian Antique Phonograph Society) which meets every 5
>>> or 6 weeks. We also have the Canadian Collectors Congress (annual shindig was
>>> this past weekend) and other groups like the Mississauga Muddies (both are jazz
>>> oriented).
>>>
>>> dl
>>
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