| A funny thing happened in Skagway, Alaska
By Boyd Worley, Port Director, Skagway, Alaska, Reprint from Customs Today, Winter 1997 |
The Alaska highway crew, which maintains the Klondike highway between Skagway, Alaska, and the Canadian border, placed a sorely needed port-a-potty just south of the border for the highway workers.A highway sign that simply states "Report to U.S. Customs" was leaned against the side of the green fiberglass port-a-potty since most motorists entering Alaska from Canada would probably glance at the portable john sitting there all alone above the tree line.Imagine the surprise of highway foreman Keith Knorr the morning of August 18, [1997] when he drove up to the portable throne in dense fog. He found a young motorist walking around it looking very puzzled.Knorr asked the man what he was doing. In broken English, the man replied, "The sign say report to Customs, and I try, but no one working now in this small building. Must I wait until they open? This place smells not good."Knorr pointed the man in the right direction and quickly placed the sign in the back of his pickup. |
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