28 - Sunday, May 3, 1987 - North Shore News

Travel

LEARNING TO GIVE DISCLAIMERS
Column goofs make a good laugh

3UST A little over 10 years ago the first Travel-Wise col-
umn appeared in print. Since then, I’ve dished out advice,
answered questions and chatted about my own travels to

travel

Why am I bringing this up to-
day? A couple of reasons. First, I
was cleaning out a drawer and
came upon my first column. I
can’t imagine how I managed to
keep it — my filing system is so
awful that most of the years of
columns have landed in the ob-
vious places — under the sandbox,
wrapped around old china or in
blue bags for recycling.

But, what made me chuckle had
nothing to do with the first column
— although it was a big enough
joke. 1 began thinking of some of
the goofs that accompanied 10
years of writing.

I'll never forget the irate fetter
from a reader who walked miles in
the fog to find a restaurant I'd

by Barbara
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more people than I’d care to count.

recommended in London. ‘The
best beef stroganoff I've ever
tasted,’’ I proclaimed. By the time
my reader found the place it had
changed into a ‘‘steak house’’ ser-
ving English-style vulcanized steak
with chips and cous-cous. Not
worth a walk across the street, let
alone miles through the fog.

And then there was the time
when I announced that CP Air
might consider classes for people
with ‘Fear of Flying’’. Unfortu-

Wa

nately, | asked the wrong person at
CP Air. While their switchboard
jammed, the head of PR at the
airline got through to me with a
“Whatinhell?”

f think the person who gave me
the original scoop might have

‘quickly found another line of

work.

Then there was the reader who
asked about taking his beloved
pussycat on an extended visit to
Hawaii. 1 assured him that the
pussycat would suffer no ill effects
from the flight and might just en-
joy “‘the biggest sandbox in the
wortd.””

Sure. Just shortly after Miss

Mew emerged from six-months
quarantine! Hawaii, unlike the rest
of the USA, doesn’t allow animals
to enter on a piece of paper dating
the last rabies shot. Hell, no. It’s
six months in the slammer.

The sad part of my line of work
is that 1 rarely hear the good things
that happen as a result of tips I've
given. Perhaps it’s a compliment
— people assume that things ought
to go the way I say they will and
that’s it. Thank God they mostly

lo.

And, I’ve learned to add little
disclaimers on places such as res-
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