Why I'm squeamish about a valet parking my car.

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240 kph = 150 mph

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A couple of years ago a valet at the Jasper Park Lodge went for a midnight run in a new Boxster. All was going well until he was returning. The road to the Lodge is very twisty with a posted 30 KPH (18 MPH) speed limit. The estimate is the valet slid sideways into a tree at 100+ KPH. Totaled the car, but he walked away unharmed. That says a lot about the safety of our cars but it doesn't say much about 20 year old valets. When the owner of the car was told about the accident, the first thing he asked was "Is the valet OK". Very classy I thought. The Boxster owner had the car for 1 week before it was totaled.

Hotel chain? Both the Queen Elizabeth in Montreal and the Jasper Park Lodge are part of the Fairmont hotel chain.

First, why don't you guys use miles in Canada? I don't think you have pay the U.S. a licensing fee or anything - I thing anyone can use them.

Second, statistically speaking, when you take 20 year old boys and put them in high-powered luxury/sports cars that don't belong to them, something like this is bound to happen from time to time.

Third, any valet who can get my Boxster up to 240KPH gets recruited to my race team.

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Red_Lightnin!
First, why don't you guys use miles in Canada? I don't think you have pay the U.S. a licensing fee or anything - I thing anyone can use them.

Well, John, it's pretty simple, really. We use km so we're allowed to go way faster than you guys south of the border. We can go 100 in places where you can only go 60 without getting a ticket.

As far as licensing - I believe miles is licensed by the UK. Didn't you have some kind of tea party some years back to celebrate being able to use miles - or something like that?

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Red_Lightnin!
First, why don't you guys use miles in Canada? I don't think you have pay the U.S. a licensing fee or anything - I thing anyone can use them.

Well, John, it's pretty simple, really. We use km so we're allowed to go way faster than you guys south of the border. We can go 100 in places where you can only go 60 without getting a ticket.

As far as licensing - I believe miles is licensed by the UK. Didn't you have some kind of tea party some years back to celebrate being able to use miles - or something like that?

No, no. The Boston Tea Party was because the Red Sox lost again. Lernt that in skool.

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