martyb
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Well, like I always say "Ya seen one, ya seen 'em both." But seriously, many years back I was taking a few day's scenic drive through Ontario. Returning to the US mid Sunday morning, I stopped at the border to visit the duty free shop. There was a money exchange there and I noticed a moderately attractive young woman at an exchange window. She had stacks of $CAN 5's and 10's in both hands. Best WAG, it was one to three grand (ca 1990). I asked one of the tellers what was going on. I was surprised that they would hazard a guess, but they did. They suggested she might be one of several (female) American students putting herself through school by working at one of Canada's many upscale Gentlemen's clubs. Naively, I asked how she could go to school and work all week. The guy chuckled and suggested she probably came over Friday night and Saturday.
Looking back with an ER perspective, it would seem some of us could have retired much earlier via such a route. Maybe just forget school, work hard for a few years, save the money and then watch the dividend checks roll in. But, sigh, I was born too early and with all the wrong equipment. YMMV
My only visit to Ontario was just across the border near Niagara Falls. A friend & I took a jet boat ride on the Niagara River, on the Canadian side. On the way down/up the river, with maybe 20 other people on the boat, we came across 3 naked women sunbathing on some big rocks, right by the river. There was lots of whooping & hollering on the boat, and the boat captain made a couple of u-turns so we could pass them a few extra times for a better surveillance of the natural beauty of the area. The sunbathing ladies paid little to no attention to the attention they were getting from gawkers on the boat...myself not included, of course!