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Tom Womack ([personal profile] fivemack) wrote2010-03-31 02:54 pm

When returning from holiday, one starts to think of holidays

By 'south of the Rio Grande', I mean 'into Mexico' rather than 'anywhere south of 31N' - I thought this was standard usage, but various of my friends in Cambridge interpreted it the other way.

[Poll #1545665]

[identity profile] dd-b.livejournal.com 2010-03-31 03:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Please try not to accidentally cross the border into Iran, or similar!

[identity profile] beckyc.livejournal.com 2010-03-31 04:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, indeed!

I did wonder about making a comment along the lines of "But that doesn't really count, at least not for countries that wouldn't lock me up as a spy or worse!".

Flying to Dubai took us over Iran/Iraq in such a way that I couldn't work out which side of the border we were flying over. At the time, I thought "Hmmm, if this plane were to need to make an emergency landing, which of these countries would actually be worse to end up in?" and I really couldn't decide!