[proud American in Canada]

"Those guys would have sold the gloves on the street in just a few minutes"

LOL! Or kept them for themselves ("hey, these are nice!").

What a great report, Doug--it sounds like it was an exhausting but really fun time.

And thank goodness you got that salmon bone out of your throat. :)

[doug from upland]

Thanks, PAIC. Later at the airport, I left my overcoat at the screening machine in the airport. I came back about five minutes later and asked a TSA guy if someone put it aside. He asked my which line I was in. Several of the TSA guys got a good laugh when I said --- Look, if I can't remember my overcoat, what makes you think I would remmember what line I was in. Anyway, I got the coat.

If they took a vote, I bet that virtually 100% of the RAT underground would be unhappy that I got the bone out of my throat. :)