Dave Smith wrote:
> George Shirley wrote:
>
>>> My sister in law's stepdaughter is a bit of a loose cannon, to say the
>>> least. For years she has been talking about going to Greece and
>>> opening the ultimate Greek cooking school. She is not Greek. I don't
>>> know if they would even let her into the country because she is still
>>> living in a half way house after having spent close to a year in jail
>>> for fraud.
>>
>> She could still qualify to live in France, ran into a lot of frauds in
>> France. Mostly trying to sell stuff to tourists.
>
> LOL I ran into one of those walking down the street in Paris. First he
> said that he thought we were American, but when I told him we were
> Canadian he loved Canadians and had a sister in Montreal. He was in
> Paris for business....fashion business, and wanted to give us a gift.
> He tried to give me a ugly cheap looking fake suede jacket. Except he
> wasn't actually giving it to me. All he needed was some money for gas to
> get back to Milan. I said "Nice try" and he yelled "Son of a bitch" at
> me. Maybe he would have still liked Canadians if I had given him a
> couple hundred dollars for an $20 jacket.

Either this is the new public sport in Italy or I ran into the same man.
Met him in Liechtenstein. Said he came from a fashion fair and had
a leather jacket left that would be too expensive to take through customs.
He'd give it to me for free; he just needed money for gas to go back to
Rome.
The world is a small place ;-)

Cheers,

Michael Kuettner