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What Billy D Said!!

I also met three governors of the state of Maryland...on more than one occassion with two... This is a true story of the first time with one.

I worked on the Intl Airport in Maryland in the Fire Dept. After the First Gulf war They were bringing in "American Refugees" from that area. Well for the photo and news opportunities guess who was there...Yup.. The GUV.. William D Shaeffer. The man who not too much earlier had made a statement that the Eastern Shore of Maryland was an Outhouse..... Now you must understand... The Eastern Shore is where I was raised...as were generations of my forbearers since the late 1600's. Well I had my crew there doing their standby duties with the medic teams etc. Course I was in uniform. The guv comes over to me... sticks out his hand and says Hi how are you? I looked at his hand..looked at his face and pointedly turned around and walked away. No hi ..no KMA or anything. Well he came by again about 20 mins later...says hi again..and I ignored him again. Now understand...I was a state employee who was ignoring his ultimate boss. well a few minutes later... one of his security people(Md State Police) comes over and asks why I won't talk to the governor. I asked him if the governor instructed him to ask .. and he said yeah. So I told him, "Well, You go tell the governor I'm from the outhouse part of Md and I didn't appreciate his statement to that effect".. The cop busted out laughing and said OK he'd tell the Gov. The governor got a little red in the face...looked at me a bit... and busted out laughing too. I grinned at him and went on with my duties. Never heard a word about it either. Luckily. Course.... At the time I had enough time to retire anyway and didn't really care. I guess the saying...we're our own worst enemies is really true.