SUGGESTION FOR BORDER PATROL

Hospital volunteers get free parking. Administrators thought of giving them free meals, but they figured, wisely, that in that neighbourhood parking is more valuable than food.

When we pull in we get a little paper ticket with our entry time. We have to write our names on it, department in which we are volunteering and our volunteer number. I go through this every week and the attendant treats me like one of the Al Qaeda people. Even though I am wearing my blue hospital volunteer jacket, recognizable anywhere, he insists on seeing my badge. This guy should be working for the US Border Patrol. Andrew Speaker got out of Canada more easily than I got out of the hospital parking lot.