Subject: Re: venture to the interior
From: Tim O'Connor (tim@roughdraft.org)
Date: Tue Jul 04 2000 - 06:52:15 GMT
At 9:09 AM +0100 on 7/4/2000, you wrote:
> I'm baffled by Tim's report of the treatment he enjoyed
> at the hands of the London fuzz. My O'Leary, O'Brien,
> O'Shaughnessy, O'Sullivan, O'Connell chums - all from
> what is regarded as one of the more 'independence' minded
> quarter of Ireland - travel back & forth to England almost
> weekly without the tiniest let or hindrance.
I confess to being at a loss for it. I wasn't wearing anything
suspicious; I was impeccably polite and well-mannered; I was, in
short, an ideal little passenger. The only detail lacking was that I
wasn't carrying a Union Jack. But given that I would be in London
for our Independence Day, I suppose that would be a bit unpatriotic
of me.
> Is it possible, Tim, that the black beret & gloves - not
> to mention the balaclava helmet - may have raised a few
> eyebrows?
<GRIN> I wasn't even wearing a Yankees baseball cap. I think they
took a dim view of how my passport shows a few stamps back into the
US but none into France (the French customs staff don't seem to want
to bother with their stamps) and one into Ireland, which made them
believe perhaps that I was a gun runner or something comparable.
However ... I have not allowed this to color my already grim view of
the world. I fully anticipate the worst on my return to Paris
tomorrow. One can only guess at what will happen when I go to
Belgium on Thursday.... I hope there are no fringe groups there with
which I appear to sympathize!
--tim (traveling on a US passport but without a single Salinger title in hand)
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