What on earth are they thinking?

[shillelagh]

Thing is though blazey if you walked into a pub in northern ireland and it was a 'protestant' pub you'd be fine because of your english voice - people over there used to say to me thank you for going over and being there on holiday (this was when the troubles were at their height) because id gone over there and not bothered about being stopped and searched when i was travelling in a car or going into a shop etc. It was because i'd gone into a catholic pub and it was the english voice - you would have had exactly the same reaction because you had an english voice. Mind you i was told later that by the time i'd come out of the pub that the ira would know who i was, where i lived, where i was stopping, why i was over there etc. Even though i never told anyone my name. I was told that a few times when i went over there. I once went over the border in my cousins car with her son driving. We went thro one border point and had some fun there over the owner of the car - thats another story though. We came back through a different border point in a different county - and we were waved through. Ok this was the army but to be waved through without being stopped when ive gone through the same border point and come back through the same border point and been stopped it was a bit different.