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To: Oral Roberts who wrote (28589)	2/24/2003 3:08:49 PM
From: Alan Smithee	Respond to of 57110

Europeans don't understand the size of our country very well as they have nothing to compare it to. I remember having a rep from Austria for some equipment we bought call me and say he was going to be in Chicago and wanted to drive over and meet me. I asked him if he knew how far Chicago was from me and he replied it didn't look far on the map. I said look at the scale I could say the same about some Americans. I had an experience last summer when I was visiting my family in SE Michigan. A friend, who happened to live in your state, thought it was an easy hop, skip and jump for me to drive over for a visit. It's as if he had no concept of the distance (over 400 miles).