My friend, Sculptor Les Drysdale, sent this to me as an email and he put it on his Facebook page. I am just copying his story because I love it and hope you will too:
Les said, "If I had a blog I'd write this".
Regarding a meeting I had in Niagara Falls, Canada this weekend. I love my GPS, but I'm guilty of blind faith in the power of technology everything else is human error.
So I did the total bonehead move of expecting the Holiday Inn that I punched into the GPS was indeed the correct one. The second time I passed the exit for Stanley Ave. I began to doubt my faith. I was confronted with and committed to huge line ups to cross the Queenston Lewiston Bridge to the US.
There were huge signs saying No U-turn. I had wished for punctuation in the sign preferring No, U-Turn. I was committed. I asked the guy directing traffic what to do. He said you'll have to sort it out with US customs. So armed with only a driver’s licence I had to enter the US. Fortunately, the officer guy believed me that I was an idiot. And asked only if I had relatives in the US then gave me the directions I needed to take back to Canada. I rolled up to Canada customs and handed the officer my driver’s licence. She responded with 'do you have any other proof of citizenship?’, I said no. She asked what was my profession and where was I going. I said sculptor, Holiday Inn. She responded ' cool' what are you doing at the Holiday Inn? I said meeting a guy about doing a sculpture. Looking at my driver’s licence and doing her computer thing she said' you're the guy that did the monument by the Falls', I said yes. She said you've satisfied me you are a citizen you can go. So I made the meeting 1/2 hr late and all went well.
Thank God for Public Art!
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