Posted on 05/04/2025 4:57:28 AM PDT by Libloather
There are more US cities I wouldn’t travel to.
Fast forward to the 2010s. My brother has been sent to a very wealthy country in the ME by his company. He did not want to go, but was sort of forced ("do it or get fired.") During that trip, he was sent to a dinner at a sheikh's house. Gold toilets in the bathroom, the whole deal. The sheikh refused to talk business until he had grilled my brother on his family. So my brother entered the interrogation with "My wife's family is from ____." The sheikh replied, "Yes, I know who your wife's family is." My brother said the hair raised up on the back of his neck. He had never even mentioned the family name, so obviously this guy had already researched everything about him before he even showed up. He spent the rest of the week with his head on a swivel and didn't leave his hotel unless he absolutely had to.
My brother returned home and submitted his resignation letter. Unfortunately, he is still married to that idiot, who has gone on to destroy all family connections here. She's a real piece of work.
NEEDS TO BE A BILLBOARD
About 5 years ago I was taking an Air Ethopia flight. As we neared landing in Addis Ababa they advertised vacation packages to sunny Mogadishu in Somalia. Somehow I was never enticed enough to visit.
Anyone with half-a-brain wouldn’t be going to any of those countries to begin with. And why isn’t China on that list?
Well, crap, there goes my vacation.
North Korea
Burkina Faso
Yemen
Iran
South Sudan
Syria
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Afghanistan
Lebanon
Central African Republic
Belarus
Iraq
Ukraine
Venezuela
Haiti
Libya
Somalia
Russia
Burma
Mali
Sudan
And that’s just Paris and London!
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