Posted on 05/24/2011 11:06:05 AM PDT by Whenifhow
Hey, Pal. My grandmother figured out what was going on in Germany and came here in 1936 to scout out opportunities to move here from Berlin. Meanwhile she sent my father out of Germany for school, first to Italy for a year and then for a year and a half in England. She did international business and told some of her trusted clients not to pay her; that the time would come when she would come to collect. She left Berlin with my grandfather on the day of Kristalnacht (coincidentally), stopped in places like Amsterdam to collect what she was owed, and then came to the United States where she reestablished her business. My father followed a couple of months later from England when his semester ended.
My grandmother's blood courses through my veins.
The references to what happened in Germany are quite appropriate, IMHO.
ML/NJ
Maybe 'cause you weren't wearing a burqa?
I had this happen to me (The full Monte, that is.) a couple of weeks ago. The guy told me I had to empty my pockets of what was left in them and hold them in my outstretched hands as I stood spread eagle and he groped inside my clothing. At the end he took my money and my credit cards which I was holding in my left hand, and looked in between the credit cards. Of course I was flying back to my home airport (for the last 39 years) and they have records that I do this all the time, and can also know from my ID that I have lived at the same address near this airport for the past 28 years. But I wasn't wearing a burqa either.
ML/NJ
That sounds identical to my story.
He seemed VERY interested in my wallet.
What seemed also strange is he looked me in the eye and asked “You got a problem?”
ML/NJ
ML/NJ
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