So, bubba, this is what you get instead: lemurs. A shitload of lemurs. I hope you're happy.
![](http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/200/5306/320/lemur.jpg)
Back when I worked at American Embassy Moscow, I handled diplomatic customs and shipping for all our freight, including the personal effects of Marines coming from other posts...
![](http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/200/5306/320/lemur2.jpg)
We had a Marine in Moscow who previously had been posted at our embassy in Antananarivo, Madagascar.
![](http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/200/5306/320/lemur3.jpg)
The shipping office at Embassy Antananarivo was so incredibly incompetent, it took more than six months for them to ship this dude's effects to us in Moscow.
![](http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/200/5306/320/lemur4.jpg)
Plus, they mislabeled his stuff, and, instead of going into the duty-free diplomatic pouch, it arrived as commercial freight, and I had to call in a lot of favors to get it released without hefty fines or a big bribe.
![](http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/200/5306/320/lemur5.jpg)
After that fiasco, my boss and I determined that the embassy shipping office in Antananarivo was actually staffed by lemurs, who could not really be blamed for their lack of knowledge in matters of diplomatic cargo.
![](http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/200/5306/320/lemur6.jpg)
The photo above, indeed, could be the head shipping clerk at our embassy in Madagascar.
![](http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/200/5306/320/lemurcleese.jpg)
John Cleese digs lemurs.
![](http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/200/5306/320/lemurcleese2.jpg)
In fact, the University of Zurich just named a lemur for him, the avahi cleesei, a tiny leaf-eating critter. Perhaps Cleese can teach them some solid management techniques and get our shipping office up to snuff.
So, Squatchito, does this beat the Sistine Chapel?
1 comment:
Why, yes. Yes it does.
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