“Shit, what was the name of the supervisor who authorised the release of my stuff?\u00a0 Trevor Whitb\u2014”<\/p>\n
“Troy.”<\/p>\n
“Troy what?\u00a0 Troy McLean?\u00a0 Troy McClure?”<\/p>\n
“From the Simpsons?”<\/p>\n
“We’re almost up.\u00a0 Shit, what’s that guy’s name?”<\/p>\n
“Hi, I’m Troy McClure.\u00a0 You might remember me from such films as<\/em>\u2014“<\/em><\/p>\n “Shit, shit, we’re up. Act nonchalant.”<\/p>\n “Passports, please.”<\/p>\n …<\/p>\n “Uh huh.\u00a0 Purpose of visit?”<\/p>\n “Court appearance in Port Huron.\u00a0 Also I’m supposed to get my laptop back, according to your boss Homer Simpson…”<\/p>\n Fortunately, though, that little Tourette’s part of my mind didn’t assume complete control.\u00a0 I even remembered Troy’s name in time.\u00a0 And the passage across the border, this time, was almost decadent<\/em>.\u00a0 “Right, Dr. Watts.\u00a0 Let me call you an escort.”\u00a0 They got someone to hold traffic so I could cut across lanes.\u00a0 I didn’t even have to get out of the car:\u00a0 they brought my laptop\u00a0 and associated paraphernalia <\/em>right to the driver’s side, let me check to make sure everything was there, inundated me with receipts, asked if I had any questions.\u00a0 There wasn’t the least hint of belligerence.\u00a0 They treated me with the utmost courtesy and respect.<\/p>\n It may surprise some recent readers of this blog to learn that, in turn, I treated them exactly the same way.<\/p>\n See how easy that is, guys?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Shit, what was the name of the supervisor who authorised the release of my stuff?\u00a0 Trevor Whitb\u2014” “Troy.” “Troy what?\u00a0 Troy McLean?\u00a0 Troy McClure?” “From the Simpsons?” “We’re almost up.\u00a0 Shit, what’s that guy’s name?” “Hi, I’m Troy McClure.\u00a0 You might remember me from such films as\u2014“ “Shit, shit, we’re up. Act nonchalant.” “Passports, please.” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":973,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions\/973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}