-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 My worst experience as an engineer, was when I was on another factory trip to Kaohsiung Taiwan. As usual, I stayed at the Ambassador, which is a great hotel. One evening I was sort of drifting in and out of sleep, and I remember thinking that people really shouldn't be cooking in their rooms. Then I remember thinking "what a bad cigar". Some time later I realized that people in luxury hotels DONT cook, and there weren't any cigars in my room either. The real clue was when I rolled over and turned on the light. It was still dark. I called the desk and asked if there was a problem, and the operator said "yes" in a paniced voice, and hung up. I got dressed fast, and grabbed the prototypes and docs I was carrying for our new product, my passport and plane tickets, and checked the door. Believe me, fire hoses in the hallway are not something you want to see in your peep-viewer. I went for the stairs, and climbed down with a really interesting slice of humanity. This hotel was very popular with the Japaneese as a honeymoon destination, and I could easily tell that some of my fellow guests were a bit more rushed getting out than I was. :) When I got to the bottom, I called my contact, and asked him if he had a spare room. As it turned out, the floor below me was on fire, and they thought they had evacuated everyone from my floor. I was in a room whose door was in an odd corner in the floorplan, and apparently they got everyone but me out. The funny part was that there was never one word in the paper or the TV news about the biggest hotel in town loosing three floors in a fire, and when I went back to the hotel (different floor) they insisted that the elevators were out of service "for maintainance"... The seared and buckled doors told a different story, and then there's that wonderful smell. Life can be interesting in a military dictatorship. :-) Then there was the time that the China Air pilot two wheeled our 747 around a turn at the Hong Kong airport.. Apparently he was determined to take the FIRST available turnoff. - -- Are you an ISP? Tired of spam? www.spamwhack.com A pre-emptive strike against spam! Where's Dave? http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/find.cgi?kc6ete-9 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.2 for non-commercial use iQA/AwUBOQ3+OYFlGDz1l6VWEQJWdACcDDCDDJ07G1HDWJblKHEGGdjraSIAoOtq wRsvJ7Q68EIYd9mO+HpFi23N =hBMU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----