There was a time we put the S.S. AMERICAN JURIST into Searsport, Maine to load sacks of potatoes for Belgium. The stevedores rigged up a chute to slide the sacks down to the hold and they also rigged up a counter to count the sacks as they went down. Upon arrival at destination we were several bags short. Then the crew remembered that the Maine stevedores were seen sliding down the chute thereby being counted as sacks of potatoes. If this discrepancy had been in France the French would have raised a ruckus - always seeking to assess fines whenever they could. All the cargo manifests for France had to be stamped by the local French Consul who was always searching for typos to assess fines. He had been stationed in China for twenty years and now in Philadelphia he had developed an eye for round eyed ladies. To minimize penalties we sent our best looking employee over with the manifest but as she became uncomfortable we ended up sending an escort to chaperone so we had two people out of the office. Cher chez la femme!!
tjs
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