Ah, isn't that silly, eh .... there are other places along the border where the line goes right through towns, crosses streets or angles along them ... one place, in Sask/Montana i think [?] where a family is locally famous for having the line run through their house - the kitchen is canadian, living room is US, or the other way round .... there just weren't those neat little white pegs around in the olden days, to guide the carpenters
In this case it's some US doofus embarrassing his nation, but it can go the other way, and often does ... pretty common wherever there are rules and human beings employed to enforce them ..... just the other night i heard [again] the most interesting account, of a young couple who were harassed due to the fact that he was taking her home to see his mother, in preparation for marriage, while she was seventeen and the law du jour said they could not be alone together unescorted, as he had [just barely] attained the age of majority, which was at the time twenty-one ... it didn't seem to matter to the enforcement doofi that his majesty du jour had entrusted this young man with a rather large and expensive aeroplane, as an officer in the RCAF .... you'd think that this expression of confidence in him would help attenuate the horror of them not waiting the two weeks or so [!] until she was eighteen and officially legal for him, but nooo ... anyway, all's well that ends well, the couple did get out of it some amusing stories, which they told sunday night, to among others their great grandchildren, at their sixtieth wedding anniversary -g- |
