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Jul. 30th, 2010 06:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bktheirregularColleague 1: "Hey, do you have any connections in Iraq so maybe you could get some oil into the country?"
Me: "Eh, even if I did, the problem is there's no way to get it past Piraeus with the truckers on strike."
Colleague 1: "Does this sort of garbage even happen in the United States? I've never heard anything about it."
Me: "Well, there was the big air traffic controllers' strike, but that was in '81, '82 or so ... thirty years ago now."
Colleague 2: "Yeah, that figures. We're thirty years behind the times."
Me: "Eh, even if I did, the problem is there's no way to get it past Piraeus with the truckers on strike."
Colleague 1: "Does this sort of garbage even happen in the United States? I've never heard anything about it."
Me: "Well, there was the big air traffic controllers' strike, but that was in '81, '82 or so ... thirty years ago now."
Colleague 2: "Yeah, that figures. We're thirty years behind the times."