timing is the key

An ice cream van used to stop outside our school around 3.30pm-4pm. All the kids would queue up and buy something after school. The guy who owned the van had done this for at least the 3-4 years I'd been at the school and, as far as I know, hadn't been told to fuck off by any teachers.

So me and a friend grab ourselves a Coke after school from the ice cream van and walk home. We only lived about 10-15 minutes walk away. We're about halfway home when this car pulls alongside us and someone winds down the window to talk to us. It's a couple of teachers from our school! I didn't think much of it -- I knew they lived in the area and were probably just being sociable. But no!

We basically got a bollocking for drinking Coke while wearing a school uniform (this is the UK by the way). WTF?! We pointed out that no one had ever told us that drinking Coke while wearing school uniform was a criminal offence, that 99% of kids leaving the school would stop at the ice cream van (or some other store) on the way home to buy drinks and sweets, and besides it was the middle of the fucking summer, we'd just played football that afternoon, and we were pretty thirsty. The teachers didn't quite know how to respond to that, so they just told us to never do it again (yeah, right) and hurry on home.

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HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters) -- Cuba's tourism minister said Sunday that 2 million people visited the Caribbean island so far this year, achieving a long-sought-after goal despite U.S. efforts to undermine the country's main foreign exchange earner.

"This year the U.S. government increased the unjust blockade imposed on our country and pledged to affect the unstoppable development of our industry," Tourism Minister Manuel Marrero said.

"These 2 million visitors represent an 8 percent increase over last year and are one more demonstration that Cuba is not alone," he added at a ceremony in eastern Holguin province, where one of the island's tourist resorts is located.

Most U.S. citizens are banned by their government from traveling to Cuba, and visits by Cuban-Americans are also restricted. Nevertheless, 200,000 people came from the United States last year, 130,000 of whom were of Cuban origin.

The number of U.S. citizens traveling to Cuba has been reduced by more than 50 percent since June, when President Bush eliminated most loopholes allowing them to visit and restricted Cuban-Americans to one visit every three years, U.S. travel agencies reported this month.

As part of its stepped-up effort to undermine President Fidel Castro's government, the United States is also funding information drives in Europe dissuading travel to Cuba on human rights grounds.

Tourism and related activities earned revenues of $2.1 billion in 2003, and those earnings increased 15 percent this year, Economy and Planning Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez said last week.

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and a slowing world economy put a dampener on the country's hope to reach 2 million arrivals in 2002.

Cuba turned to tourism after the collapse of European Communism plunged its socialist economy into crisis.

"The tourism industry accounted for 4 percent of foreign exchange earnings in 1990 and 41 percent this year," Marrero said.

"The number of hotel rooms was 13,000, and today there are 41,000, 40 percent four and five-star," he said.

Foreign hotel chains, such as France's Accor and Spain's Sol Melia, manage the majority of five-star and four-star hotels in Cuba.

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Walking with my two friends down a road one night, one of them decideds to hawk the biggest fucking loogie ever onto the hood of a car speeding by at 45 miles per hour. The man in the car didn't think this was such a cool thing and proceded to lock up his brakes, throw it into reverse, and park the car across the street from us. My friend the spitter (A member of the middle school track team...) just said "shit" and hopped a guard rail and took off down a side street while me and my other friend laughed at him. Out of the car bursts a huge (hey, huge for us middle schoolers) guy and his girlfriend. The girl runs after the spitter, and the guy storms up to us and lifts me up by my shirt.

"What the FUCK do you think you are doing to my car?"
"Twasn't us, dickhead, it was our idiot friend Mike."
"You're going to show me where this Mike kid lives."

He drops me back down to Earth and walks me and my friend over to his car. His girlfriend comes back, Mikeless. I am stuck in the front seat next to Mungo, and my friend sits in the back with his woman. At this point I was hysterical. I thought for sure this maniac was going to take me back to his cave and toss me into a pit (a la Silence of the Lambs) and do strange things to me. But I just give him directions to Mike's house and on the way he talks a bit.

"I am affiliated with law enforcement agencies, and your friend could get into a lot of trouble"
"He's a Target security guard" the girl in the back seat says, holding up the beast's uniform for proof.
"I try to make my car look as much like a cop car as possible," Mungo announces to no one in particular. I stifle a horrified grin and point out the turn to get to Mike's house.

We get to Mike's and Mungo explains, very civilly, the situation to Mike's mom. I tell her that Mike probably ran off to our buddy Richard's house, so she calls over there. Five minutes later Mike pulls up in Richard's mom's car.

"You guys suck"
"We're not going to take the blame for your fuckup, fuckup."
"Son," says Mungo, who could not have been 10 years older than Mike, "you could have seriously damaged the paint-job on my car. I have your phone number and your mom says that any damages will be taken out of your allowance."
"Apologize, Michael."
"I'm sorry."

Then me and my other friend walk back down the road, get to our destination, and say "fuck"

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