Terms and Conditions

November 23, 2001

The government official in charge of multi-cultural affairs & I had a discussion of profiling on airplanes& at airports. He told a story about a woman who didn’t like the looks of a man on the plane she was taking. The authorities took him off the flight & interrogated him. As it turned out, he was harmless. Uri was called in when the passenger under suspicion filed a complaint. The man protested that he’d been unjustly singled out. Uri reminded him that the temperature was in the 90s on the day he boarded the plane & that he did look out of place wearing a full wet suit.

There was a notice posted in the elevator today alerting all tenants that workers were going to be abseiling the building. We were cautioned to keep our curtains closed for privacy. We asked, & abseiling (pronounced ab-sailing) involves workers who are on a scaffold suspended by ropes from the roof. They explained that it was also a rock climbing term. We call it rappelling.

Toby