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those silly Canadians!

So I teach the Louis Vuitton executives here in Chile and one of my students recently went to Canada for a big international Louis Vuitton Hoopla. So here is her story... She finally gets to the airport in Canada and as she is coming off the plane, a security guard pulls her aside and informs her that she will need to be searched and questioned. She has been taking English classes for years now and can hardly speak a word. And the whole thing is in English... great. So they take all her luggage out (all five pieces of luggage for a 5 day trip!) and as they are searching through her belongings, they find 8 pairs of shoes. And they become very suspicous. My guess is that they thought she was trying to get into the country to live there. What person brings 8 pairs of shoes to a 5 day trip?? So they are asking her and asking her, and she is trying to explain in her broken English that she works for Louis Vuitton and of course she has to have a pair of shoes for the day and one for the nights when they go out. And she can't wear the same pair every day, so she needs 8 pairs for the 5 days.
I am laughing as she tells me this story, and she suddenly gets really defensive and she explains to me that being the one respresentative from Chile, she can't speak English, but she sure can dress well. I can just picture her at the international border trying to explain all her luggage including her 8 pairs of shoes, and telling this group of men searching her luggage that she works for Louis Vuitton, so OBVIOUSLY she is going to have 8 pairs of shoes for 5 days. Those silly Canadians!

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Anonymous said…
that's funny!

and by contrast, there's me -- i head to europe for a three-week trip, all in one carry-on bag, with exactly two pairs of shoes: clogs (not quite a fashion item) and flip-flops.

your fashionably different mom
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