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In August of 1984, I attended, with my friend Miguel Azevedo
Coutinho, a professor of
civil engineering at the Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST) of the
Technical University of Lisbon,
the ASCE Hydraulics Division Specialty Conference at Coeur D'Alene,
Idaho.1
We flew from San Diego to Seattle,
rented a Lincoln Towne Car at the airport, and
headed east to Idaho while managing to do some sightseeing along the way.
As the Conference came to an end, Miguel and I prepared to return to Seattle. I told him I would
go get the car and pick him up at the curb at the hotel entrance.
Miguel was waiting for me as I pulled up to the curb.
At the same time he got into the passenger seat,
another conference attendee also entered the car
through the rear door.
A couple of blocks down the road,
noticing something strange,
our absent-minded, would-be intruder said: "Driver, is this the limo?"
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