Word: canadas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some guy who spoke broken English asked to see our passports. Of course, we did not have any, nor did we have any registration for this broken-down car. Like the overpayed, underqualified civil service worker he was, the border patrolman let us go. So we were finally in Canada. As we approached Montreal, we started to see words that sort of looked like English, but not exactly...
That trip was fun but we still had six more days of vacation to kill. Two days later, around 10 pm, we were driving to Star Market to get some food, and I said to Young Jin, "You know, I have never been to Canada...(pause)...Wouldn't it be so funny if we just drove Bob's car to Canada and came back. Ha!" I guess what I said wasn't taken as a joke because just like that we got on the Mass Pike, and we were on our way to Canada...
...what happened. Sure enough, as soon as we passed Albany, we started to hear a very faint buzzing sound on the car, and the red emergency light flashed on the dashboard. When we neared the Canadian border, this faint became a loud drumming sound, So about 30 miles from Canada, we pulled the car aside on the road and lifted the hood. Suddenly the car started to hiss, and steam hid the view of the engine...
Three days later, "Bob" came back from Canada...
...sitting in my room in Cabot House Saturday night, listening to the game on WHRB as I always do when I'm not fortunate enough to travel seven hours to such beautiful locales as Canton and Potsdam, New York. (Go north on I-93 and if you hit Canada, then you've gone...