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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2020 19:03:47 GMT -5
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Post by Clipper on Mar 19, 2020 22:24:47 GMT -5
If I still worked for the air force I might have had a chance to check that place out. We used to stay in Waldorf Md when we worked at Andrews AFB because it was a high cost per diem area and we got $120 a day for meals and lodging If there was not any available officer's quarters available they would give us a non-availability voucher to get a contract hotel at the same price as on base quarters. It was about a half hour from the base, and about that far from LaPlata. We used to go to a restaurant in LaPlata. The shrine looks to be only a few miles from LaPlata.
When I drove buses I visited many shrines, both in the US and in Canada. That was not one of them. I am not a Catholic but I always enjoyed those trips. The only shrine I didn't like to visit was St Anne de Beaupre, North of Quebec City. They would reserve rooms for us in a retreat house, in a room just big enough for a bed and small table with a chair. NO TV or anything else to do at night but read a book or take a walk. I eagerly anticipated the next night's lodging at the luxurious 5 star Chateau Frontenac in Quebec City and some five star dining.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2020 14:39:31 GMT -5
Did the seniors on those trips grab all the sweet and low packages from eateries!
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Post by Clipper on Mar 20, 2020 14:53:31 GMT -5
Yep, The little dishes on the tables holding Sweet and Low would all be bare when we left a restaurant, and one lady even brought a Dutch oven full of roasted sweet and hot peppers. She actually carried a pepper sandwich into an Italian restaurant, ordered a half carafe of Lambrusco and broke out her foil wrapped sandwich. The meal was paid for with the price of the ticket so she could have had a salad, pasta, a beverage and dessert for free. That same night she called my room at around midnight and asked me if I could take the bus to a bakery we had passed and get a loaf of Italian bread. She told me if I went she would fix me a nice pepper "sangwich" when I got back. Thank goodness I had dropped the bus at a bus garage to be washed and to have the john dumped and had taken a cab back to the hotel so I had an excuse for not going, haha.
I have had some other weird requests when on charters. One guy on a hockey trip to Montreal was going to give me $50 if I took him and a friend to a strip club. I told him to hail a cab. I had 4 guys one night walk about three miles from the hotel to a bar where they got shitfaced drunk and called my room asking me to come and get them. I spoke to the bartender and told him to put their drunk asses in a cab. People have asked me to make beer runs while they were at ball games. I guess that when they rented the bus they thought that I was at their beckoned call. Not always so.
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