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Re: RHD Signalling (No TIGER content)

To: johnc@nait.ab.ca
Subject: Re: RHD Signalling (No TIGER content)
From: Tiger2@telus.net
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 18:49:27 -0700
OK, I'm impressed.  You have to be the first person I have heard of that has
managed to convince the border guards, once a decision has been made.  Other
than his assertion that we are all "Crazy Canadians" up here, you also appear
to be a very convincing persuader.

Mike Clark
B382100417

johnc@nait.ab.ca wrote:

> One More RHD story . . .
> Dee and I took the TC down to the US a number of years back. The US customs
> agent took one look at the car and said that he could not allow us in as
> the driver was on the wrong side. I assured him that I was on the "right"
> side and he replied to the effect that being a smart ass would not convince
> him to let us in.
> I tried my best to talk him into granting us entrance but to no avail.
> Finally I got him to measure from the center of the steering wheel to the
> left hand edge of the TC. We then went to the motor home behind us and
> measured from the center of their steering wheel to the left-hand edge of
> their mirror and it was less distance. I then managed to convince him that
> driving the TC was just like driving a motor home with nothing on the right
> hand side. He begrudgingly let us enter with a shake of his head and a
> murmur about crazy Canadians.
> Godspeed
> Jc


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