I shall actually be in Winterpeg in two weeks for a niece's wedding. I like The Peg and as I'm finding out, I like most places in this great Country called Canada.
I've travelled a little, I guess the most southerly was Trinidad and Tobago. That was cool
. Picture this, I was walking down one of the main streets in Port of Spain with a couple of friends and I saw this poor guy with a flat tire. Now I'm a big guy, so they say, 6' 3" and I can carry 270 lbs and look ok, I'm carrying a bit more than that now so it's back to the gym soon, however I see this guy with a flat on his Mercedes. He's in a suit, so I think what the hell, I'm on vacation, I can go shower and change and he can stay clean. I offer to change his tire for him. So I'm on the ground putting the jack under the car and a crowd starts to gather. I'm thinking it's just a flat tire folks, carry on, but they just stand around. Anyway it took me 15 minutes or so to get the old tire off and into the trunk, the spare on and the car back on the ground, no big deal. The guy offers me some money, but I don't want it, like I said I'm on vacation so I'm just in a good mood anyway. He hands me his card and says to call him if I get over to Tobago, which we were heading in two days.
He goes on his way and the crowd is just staring at me. Then I realized that my friends and I were about the only white people in the area and here I was changing the tire of this well dressed coloured man. They must have though he was filthy rich.
I didn't call him when we were in Tobago as we were only there for a few hours, but turns out he owned one of the golf resorts there.
Hm, how did I get to Trinidad from Winnipeg?
Nevermind, carry on.
Graham