Friday, July 30, 2004

Server in the Automotive Art Trinidad franchise went down, so I had to fly down the spare parts server to swap out parts till we got it back up. Here are a couple of scenarios which make travl to Trinidad very unpleasent.

Scenario #1
reach T&T with spare parts server... customs man ask me what it is .. I tell him.. man want tuh know how much I feel it worth.. I say $300 - $400 US maybe cuz its boout 3 years old and is being used for spare parts...de man value it at 2000 TT (6TT to 1 US) and charge duty and vat pun it

de tings is...there aint no duty and vat pun computers or computer parts in Trinidad

Scenario #2

Leffin T&T ... get to checkin.. realize dat dem got a sign pun de wall stating that lugguge weight limit for flights within the caribbean is only 20 KG (44 pounds) per bagage... fine... put server up on scale.. scale read 31.4 KG.. man reason turn box pun side.. so I turn box.. scale read 31.4 KG... man rest he hand pun de box till it read 34.1 then reson he gun put it at 35 kg.

then he proceed to charge me 15KG in over weight as opposed to 11kg.