Comments | flowery_twat: i think i might be an illegal immigrant in my own country

flowery_twat

i think i might be an illegal immigrant in my own country

Jun 23, 2006 09:17

moireach was griping the other night about academic types who may well be brilliant scientists, but are utterly useless when it comes to basic organizational skills. She cited, by way of example, Profs in her department who leave important and highly sensitive documents in airport bathrooms and such. And I know she didn't specifically mean to include me in ( Read more... )

travel, dorkishness

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poshcat June 23 2006, 13:38:42 UTC

Hee! Just be glad there's not a great big wall you have to scale every time you forget your wallet.

Thank God for dog sitters, that's my motto. :0D

flowery_twat June 23 2006, 13:41:35 UTC

There is a very special place in heaven reserved for dog sitters!

I SUCK at scaling walls, so I am verrah glad. :-)

ljs June 23 2006, 14:48:18 UTC

[sends many hugs for the illegal entry]

arundhathi June 23 2006, 15:24:32 UTC

Hee. It is nice when other people are as feckless as you are. I once forgot that I would need my passport to get into France. Where there's a whole sea to remind you that it's another country. Fortunately I was with people much more neurotic about checking and rechecking such things than me and didn't get all the way to Le Shuttle without it.

And I don't even have the brilliant scientist thing on my side!

starfishchick June 23 2006, 15:33:04 UTC

I have, of course, driven from Boston to Montreal a dozen times or more over the years. There was a big honkin international border in the way EVERY TIME.

Amazing, that. :)