Wednesday, April 14, 2010

April 9...1980 and 2010

Last Friday, April 9, 2010, my friend called me as she was traveling to visit her daughter.  She was excited because she had just been entered into a chance to win a get away to Sandals at the the Bahamas through a radio station contest.  She asked me to look up the details of it because the drawing was later that day.  When I did I saw that the trip was coming up in like two weeks and required that the winner already have a passport.  Since my friend didn't have a passport, I looked up the details and saw that it took a minimum of two to three weeks expedited.

It got me to thinking that I should look in to getting one in case there was ever a good deal on a cruise or something.  One of the questions on the passport form was in regards to whether you've ever had a passport before and if so what is the number.  I had one when I was in high school so I wondered if I even had the thing anymore and looked for it when I got home.

I had gone to Germany when I was in high school and the passport was among my souvenirs. I was looking through my stuff from the trip and reminiscing.  On the last day of my trip at the Frankfurt airport, I had grabbed a paper.  As I was looking at this old paper, I looked at the date.  It was April 9, 1980.  So I looked at my passport, and it only had one stamp from when I reentered the country and it was April 9, 1980.

What was the odds that exactly 30 years to the day, I would be looking at my passport because I was considering another passport?

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