Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 08:57:18 -0700
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From: neil <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: About Busfusion.... (read that you lazy American)
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That's a cool story Sam. (No pun intended!)
And Ben you are correct sir!
My travelling (in Vanagon. VC!) has not been extensive, but my
experiences with Americans has been quite positive.
In Bay City OR, while looking for public library, I stumbled upon the
local Arts Centre. In it were some women who had just finished baking
bread for a fund raiser for a neighbouring towns' womens' shelter.
IMHO, they should have been suspicious of the "lone dude". But no,
they invited me in to sample their bread. We chatted and I got
directions to the library. Nice folks!
Too bad i can't make time to get to BusFusion. I have to play my
trombone 8 shows a week. My day.5 off is just not enough time to get
there and back (to B.C.)
And isn't "trombone" French for paper clip? Ben?
;^)
Cheers,
Neil.
--
Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia.
http://web.mac.com/tubaneil
On 5/13/07, vt <samcvt@comcast.net> wrote:
> Bon Jour, Ben.
>
> I've had similar postive experiences in the Canadian provinces I've visited
> on both "edges" of your wonderful country, certainly including Francophile
> PQ.
>
> I recall the infamous Ice Storm of 1998. I was sent north to Alburg,
> Vermont to establish a primary shelter and three smaller ones in what we, in
> Vermont, call "The Islands." I believe it was the 2nd or 3rd early morning
> (1-2 AM). Most of the shelter residents had finally bedded down. I was
> holding a critique of the day completed and planning for how we would staff
> the shelters and feed the 1000 folks in the shelters, the several hundred
> who had not been brought to the shelter, and the hundred+ power line
> workers, military reservists and law enforcement personnel and other
> volunteers.
>
> At that time, we were using food stores from the local elementary school and
> home freezers which people brought to the shelters - the roads to the south
> were not passable.
>
> All of a sudden the door to the parking lot slammed open and a fellow who
> looked like a walking snow or ice man walked in, carrying his snow shoes.
> He was shivering and literally covered with ice. Our army reserve medic and
> I rushed over and caught him as he was falling to the floor. We carried him
> into our blanket-walled "infirmary" and removed his outer clothes ... He was
> speaking to us in French with a few english words thrown in ...
>
> After he was warmed up, fed some soup and calmed down, and we had identified
> an old-timer who spoke fluent Quebecois, we learned he was from a small town
> just south of St. Jean, and had come looking for help for his village. He
> had been unable to travel north because of all the downed trees and power
> lines that Quebec suffered, so had turned his snow-machine toward the
> border. It broke down on the way, and he had walked nearly 5 miles before
> he heard our generator and saw our lights....
SNIP
> Sam Conant
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "benoit" <huotb@VIDEOTRON.CA>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2007 9:22 AM
> Subject: Re: About Busfusion.... (read that you lazy American)
>
SNIP
> >
> > I have so many more stories, but the conclusion is that:
> > Be nice with folks, listen to what they have to say, don't be a prick,
> > and folks will be nice to you. People are people.
> > Everything is a question of behavior!
> >
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