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Location: Boise, Idaho | I'm surprised you knew where the Midwest is, Cliff. I had a New Yorker ask whether there were any States between Michigan and Idaho and which direction Idaho was from Seattle.
Another thought we had a blackout over the whole Western US because he couldn't see any street lights. Several don't believe that there are actually places where one city limit doesn't meet another city limit. Then there are the New York cab drivers that can't find the New York Life building even when I gave them an address.
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Location: closely held secret | I've had people tell me it's a shame we in Oregon have to drive through Washington to get to the beach... |
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Location: NJ | Considering it was probably the cabbie's first day in this country, you should probably consider yourself lucky . . . .
. . . had he been "experienced", he probably would've taken you there by-way-of BAYONNE and "banged" you on the meter. ;) |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I think he did. He dropped me off uptown and I had to walk about 30 blocks. A hotel doorman asked me if he could call me a cab and I told him that's why I was walking in the first place. It was a nice day and I didn't have too much luggage. They aren't as scary as the cabbies in Italy. They seemed to be Italian. |
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Location: Madison, Wisconsin | Mark,
My wife and I lived in Sandpoint for 15 years. I'm from Indiana b4 that but just couldn't bare the thought of moving back there so here we are in Dairyland USA. |
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| Kinda makes you appreciate London cabbies don't it?
I've never been in a song before - thank you Krusty. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Bill,
You really do go against the grain. You are only the second person I have heard of that moved back to the Midwest from Sandpoint. The first was a guy who left Boise to move to Sandpoint in 1978, just after I moved here from Iowa. A few years later I go back to Iowa to visit the old law school and there he is teaching. Didn't recognize him cause he got all cleaned up. Only recognized the name, Paul Papak. |
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Location: Madison, Wisconsin | Mark,
We came back for a few reasons. The schools in Bonner County, ID are the pits. They go in and out of accreditation from one year to the next and we didn't want our kids to end up spelling like me. Also, my Mom and Dad were getting pretty old and we thought it might be nice to be able to spend some time with them. I sure do miss the mountains and lakes you can drink from. |
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Location: Midland, MI | You can drink from any of the lakes in Michigan, Bill. Not that you'd want to, but you *can*. ;) |
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