I talk below about the rigid Bible Belt laws I was raised with.
When I was a teenager I crossed a European border on a train for the first time.
Everybody was getting their passports ready. It was formal moment.
Then several people took out bottles of wine and opened them up.
This was one of hte many moments in my life when things seemed absolutely unreal.
In the Bible Belt, when you are about to face a uniformed government official, the LAST thing you do is pull out your bottle and a corkscrew.
If Europeans didn’t understand the American concept of law versus enforcement, this American didn’t understand the European concept of alcoholic beverages.
Here is what was going on:
If you crossed a border with a bottle of wine, that bottle could be taxed. But you could be DRINKING an OPENED bottle of wine and it was not taxed. Some people had frogotten to open their wine bottle until they hit the border, so they were making it untaxed.
Later on I’ll tell you about the chickens on African planes.
#1 by Shari on 05/25/2006 - 5:09 pm
NOT SPAM What about the chickens?