20 March
Our first real married fight takes place in the Vancouver Airport, less than 12 hours after we are married. If you could call it that. The wife finally looked at our itinerary in detail. Monday is our first day in Vietnam and is also a travel day. Once we get to Vietnam we are supposed to spend the rest of the day touring on our own. We are arriving in Vietnam at 11 pm on Monday (which is 7:30 am next Friday in Edmonton, or something like that). This leaves us with no time to tour on our first day. Instead of two days in Vietnam, we effectively have one. Guess who she blames for this.
You are correct if you guess the only other person in the Vancouver Airport that she knows. I bet the guy sitting behind us on the airport bench while we "discussed" the issue never gets married.
As an aspiring political junkie, the most disturbing thing about this trip was being unconnected and unable to keep up to date on various political goings on. Fortunately, the Vancouver Airport stepped up to make me feel at home. Vancouver International is very clean and modern. Despite this, the first washroom stall I use has only one piece of graffiti, which, in true West Coast, pot smoking, hippie fashion states:
BUSH = HITLER
BOYCOTT US GOODS
Don't you think if Bush is as bad as Hitler we should be doing more that boycotting Coca Cola? Imagine that, if after Hitler invaded Poland we had said, "Bad Germany, Bad! We will no longer buy your schnitzel".
Take that Hitler.
2 comments:
MB, as a 'lefty' I often feel your pain about some of the raving crazies on the left (as much as I'm sure many on the 'right' feel towards their own kin). I read something somewhere the other day that went sorta like this: "on every side in politics are people we wished were on our enemies." Couldn't agree more about the bathroom artist in the Van airport.
From the wife : Marcel forgot to mention that we had our first official fight of the honeymoon and VIA, when he declared he would hold onto my boarding pass so I wouldn't "lose it".
Men.
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