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I've been hearing a lot of "traveling to Europe is dangerous!", and I'm trying to weigh that against whether it's more dangerous than living in the US.
'cos I'm sure that a lot of it is on par with the craziness my mom invents -- "Scotland is at war with England and there's a lot of car bombs and terrorism there."
And I'm also thinking that my experiences with American travel haven't been all that safe, starting with spending an hour being interrogated by a cop in rural Missouri (with my family, obviously on vacation) because, and this was what the cop said, not an assumption on my part, our car had out of state plates.
Then there was my first week in Georgia when I took that job as a door-to-door salesman (THEY SAID SCHEDULED DEMONSTRATIONS GODDAMN IT!) and they drove me out to a neighboring town where I couldn't easily leave, where they snorted coke off the dashboard and one of the guys drug a trashy girl out of the van by her hair for getting too mouthy.
But in my defense, I was really broke and hated working at McDonalds, so accepting a job from a white man with a grill didn't seem like that bad of an idea . . . plus, one of Sheryl's friends worked there and said they were legitimate.
So anyway, I'm trying to decide if it's a bad idea or not. I'd like to say that at worst, it's not any more dangerous than taking a vacation in any of the larger cities in the US. Shit -- people get their throats cut in rest stops up here, and in neighboring Manitoba some guy riding a bus managed to hack off another passenger's head, and what are the odds of anything like that happening on the train from Holyhead to London?
'cos I'm sure that a lot of it is on par with the craziness my mom invents -- "Scotland is at war with England and there's a lot of car bombs and terrorism there."
And I'm also thinking that my experiences with American travel haven't been all that safe, starting with spending an hour being interrogated by a cop in rural Missouri (with my family, obviously on vacation) because, and this was what the cop said, not an assumption on my part, our car had out of state plates.
Then there was my first week in Georgia when I took that job as a door-to-door salesman (THEY SAID SCHEDULED DEMONSTRATIONS GODDAMN IT!) and they drove me out to a neighboring town where I couldn't easily leave, where they snorted coke off the dashboard and one of the guys drug a trashy girl out of the van by her hair for getting too mouthy.
But in my defense, I was really broke and hated working at McDonalds, so accepting a job from a white man with a grill didn't seem like that bad of an idea . . . plus, one of Sheryl's friends worked there and said they were legitimate.
So anyway, I'm trying to decide if it's a bad idea or not. I'd like to say that at worst, it's not any more dangerous than taking a vacation in any of the larger cities in the US. Shit -- people get their throats cut in rest stops up here, and in neighboring Manitoba some guy riding a bus managed to hack off another passenger's head, and what are the odds of anything like that happening on the train from Holyhead to London?