What is the weirdest place

[Rook Zimbabwe]

Here I sit in Leon Guanajuato Mexico. I am here at the behest of my company to install Xerox 5500DX Laser Printers in 2 General Motors plants.

I have just been informed by Xerox that the printers shipped to the plants the day I left. I am supposed to go tomorrow to install, and I am wondering if they will even be there.

I fly over 1200 miles from Houston Texas to another country... and no one shipped the printers until the same day?

In 2 days I have to fly (still in mexico) to Monterrey Mexico and dive hour south to Satillo to install 3 more of the same printers.

I wonder if those have shipped?

I miss my wife.

My query for this poll is:

What is the farthest you have been sent, or the weirdest place you have been sent to do a job?

[traumatic]

Second Life

[PB]

> What is the farthest you have been sent

I once had to deliver a TV camera by car from Sydney to Wollongong. It's
only about 85 kilometres apart, but it's a 2-hour drive (back then, anyway).
I have family in Wollongong so I made a day of it (with work's permission).

[DarkDragon]

Second Life

I second this. It's the weirdest place.

[Derek]

The farthest I have been sent is about half a mile to the local hospital to get a splinter removed.

I was working in a timber yard at the time and got a really big splinter in my finger that actually stopped it from bending. Went in the end of my finger and down to the first joint. Spent 3 hours waiting at the hospital, had a local injection in my palm (which bloody hurt more than the splinter) then another in the back of the hand and then had an x-ray and then had it pulled out the way it went in.

Not bad for a mornings work.

[Kaeru Gaman]

the farthest was Hamburg - Roubaix - Paris - Hamburg by car within 24h
I worked as a courier in the early 90s....

the weirdest.... dunno... this is earth, everything is weird here....

[codemaniac]

I was in Japan to do some information technology studies just a year ago.. and now I'm in Norway as an exchange student, but I'm actually Finnish

The weirdest place?.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilets_in_Japan

[bembulak]

Japanese toiletss seem to be a weird place, indeed.

The weirdest place I've been so far was "Las Vegas, Nevada" for a traid fair in bakery- and food buissiness. From Austria (were I live) it's a 14 hours trip.

Austia - Frankfurt - Denver - Las Vegas :
stayed there just for 2 days, struggled with the jet-leg, because I was never on a plane before. Visited Vegas with all it's pros and cons , went to the trade fair, did some decision making, sold some machines to bakeries, had some drinks and slept in a castle where I met King Arthur, Merlin and som dragons (no, I didn't consume any drugs, it was Excalibur-Hotel).

Then, after two days, got back to the airport on a sonday afternoon.
Vegas - Denver - Frankfurt - Austria. Got in a Taxi and heard the bad and sad news, because I landed on the 9th September 2001 at 9.00 am, when a plane hit the first tower in New York. Couldn't belive....


Planet Earth is really a strange place - I still wait for Ford Perfect to take me onto a space ship. 42

[Rook Zimbabwe]

The Excaliber?? My wife and I got married there in 2003!!! We eloped and had a blast!!!

[bembulak]

Yeah, the Excalibur. Funny, isn't it! I liked it a lot! (The "all you can eat Breakfast" was great! )

[Dare]

The furtherest I have been sent was from Australia to USA (LA) to talk to some people.


The strangest places I have been sent were (1) From Namibia to Angola to steal back a truck that had been stolen from an associated company and (2) From Zimbabwe to Mozambique to shoot up an enemy camp.


The best place I have been sent was from Africa to Australia (I sent myself and my family).


Aussie Aussie Aussie!


Hope your printers arrived.

Don't let them ask you why you're taking so long!

[Killswitch]

I've been taken (not sure if this counts) to Tunisia for a geography assignment, twice!

[Beach]

From the Atlanta Georgia, US to Munich Germany for technical training. Stayed a little over a month and loved it!

[Rook Zimbabwe]

Well... if we are going to include Africa, I would have to also claim Mogadishu. The Army sent me there and didn't really ask me if I wanted to go. I didn't.

That was a whole other universe. A dimension where the rules made sense only by the standards of the person standing next to you. You were in charge of the universe around you until some flipped the coin behind your back and a new person called the shots.

It is where I got my Purple Heart and my Army Cross and where I sweated crap I had drunk in 3rd grade since I was out of everything else. Where I found out what Heat exhaustion is like and where I left with no real regrets but sad memories of having to threaten hungry or starving people with a gun because I had to deliver rice that was just stolen 30 mins after I left by some Boss (ie: warlord) and where the good people were afraid of us and the bad people pretended not to be.

Still can't completely feel my feet but on rainy days I can feel the small piece of bullet lodged in my lower spine that may one day move and paralyze me from the waist down.

oops I didn't know I had a tape to start... sorry...

[techjunkie]

(The "all you can eat Breakfast" was great! )

Is there another breakfast? "Sorry dude, you have had your share of toasted sandwiches, scrambled eggs, freshly baked muffins and hot coffee!"