"Douglas Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in part: "I've generally found the cops I've come in contact with to be fairly polite. (And one of those was a lot more cordial the day we were waiting for the trial, which I got tired of waiting for and cut a deal with him to drop a ticket and I'd plead guilty to the others.)"
That's how the racket works. It's time they're getting paid for and you're not. In Chicago I saw an offer to a whole room full to plead to save waiting time. I got caught in a worse racket a few years ago here in the Bronx. The bus stop sign post was knocked down on a Saturday, they must've ticketed a line of us parked there, and by the time I returned Sunday to take a picture, the sign post had been re-erected. "BTW, the Canadian dollar hit parity with the U.S. in 1974; I remember because I went to Niagara Falls with my camp and was stunned." It also went to slightly more than the US dollar in 1970 (Nixonomics), during our trip there, so we lost on the exchange both ways. The Canadian dollar had always been about $.90 before that during my childhood. "IIRC, the US dollar made a comeback in 1975 and the two haven't been close until now." Yeah, the Canadian dollar slipped lower vs. US than it'd been for a long time during that interval. It got down to around $.75, didn't it? I wonder whether NY Thruway toll booths will take it at par now; they should give a better break than banks, to encourage traffic from Canada. In Your Sly Tribe, Robert _______________________________________________ Libnw mailing list Libnw@immosys.com List info and subscriber options: http://immosys.com/mailman/listinfo/libnw Archives: http://immosys.com/mailman//pipermail/libnw
