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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SBSVC, post: 166939, member: 136&quot;]Greg -</p><p><br /></p><p>Many long years ago, my husband had a 3-month long assignment in Okinawa. (He was NOT military...)</p><p><br /></p><p>I went to visit him in the middle of his assignment.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since he was working, I had lots of time on my hands, and I spent an awful lot of it walking the beaches, picking up cool shells as I went. (I spent a lot of time talking with poor homesick soldiers, too - but that&#039;s a story for another day)</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, for whatever reason (boredom, probably!) I sorted the shells by type &amp; put them in a couple of egg cartons to take home. </p><p><br /></p><p>I will NEVER forget the guards at Narita Airport, going thru my bags and GIGGLING over my little packets of shells, so neatly packed into the individual compartments of my egg cartons. </p><p><br /></p><p>Each one of them called over another, until there were a full dozen men chattering among themselves &amp; laughing at my seashells, looking at me as if I were nuts.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was <b>mortified </b>- but I still have all of those shells (even if they are all mixed together in a tall glass jar!)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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