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I was in Jamaca years ago and my father had to

fly some water maker parts to me in Montego Bay but he sent them to Kingston instead. I had to take a public van from Montego all the way across the mountains which took a LONG time. When I got to the airport in Kingston the customs guy told me I had to pay duty. I said it's a yacht in transit and that I didn't have to pay the duty. We got into a big argument and he won. He won but I didn't have enough money or at least the amount he wanted and told him so. He said how much do you have? I said 20 bucks and he said OK. I told him that there was no way he was going to stick me in Kingston in the middle of the night with no money so he settled for fifteen bucks. That left me five to get to the commuter airline on the other side of town which still had one more flight to Montego. You talk about a bad day!

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