# American parents -- again **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 23, 2020, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-parents-again/928772 "2020-12-23T22:46:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2021, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-parents-again/928772/82 "2021-01-02T01:16:39Z")
One episode of _Banged Up Abroad_ (It’s retitled to _Locked Up Abroad_ in the US) featured, IIRC, two Americans who got jailed in Jamaica for smoking marijuana. They were stunned that’s illegal there. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2021, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-parents-again/928772/83 "2021-01-02T01:20:56Z")
Why would you believe North Korea’s version? ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2021, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-parents-again/928772/84 "2021-01-02T01:27:13Z")
I’m not tracking…why do you think I believe their version? ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2021, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-parents-again/928772/85 "2021-01-02T02:20:19Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > jailed in Jamaica for smoking marijuana. They were stunned that’s illegal there. Busting American college kids for smoking marijuana was a pretty popular pasttime in Jamaica when I lived there. We had a lecture for our visiting college students upon arrival; we told them exactly how the deal went - Person A sells you some dope. They then tell the local police who give them $5. Police arrest American lad and put him in a nasty jail cell with some pretty nasty characters. They let him know that this will be his future for the next 10 years unless Daddy can come up with $500 USD cash in the next 12 hours. Here’s a phone. Cash is transferred. Junior gets out of jail. Rinse and repeat with the next sucker. It’s a nice little money-maker. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2021, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-parents-again/928772/86 "2021-01-02T22:29:21Z")
> St. Matthew’s University is a medical school focused at providing quality and affordable medical courses thereby aiming at the success of our students. Wait, did they just use “quality” as an adjective? Not evil, just awkward. “Quality and affordable” . . . s i g h . . . > [@MandaJo](#): > > I would love to know 1) how many “pre-med” Freshmen actually go to Med school Some of us _almost_ did… we made it through all four years without switching to “Liberal Arts Major”, though we might as well have. My pre-med ‘cohort’ ended up with a handful of doctors, but also a jazz band leader, a sculptor, two ministers, an art teacher and a slush rug tycoon. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2021, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-parents-again/928772/87 "2021-01-02T22:44:15Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Some of us _almost_ did… we made it through all four years without switching to “Liberal Arts Major”, though we might as well have. My older sister was a zoology major, and she mas midway through her senior year before she could no longer change to a pre-med major without taking any additional classes. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2021, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-parents-again/928772/88 "2021-01-02T22:59:04Z")
> [@digs](#): > > and a slush rug tycoon. Slush fund tycoon? Or plush rug tycoon? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2021, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-parents-again/928772/89 "2021-01-03T00:54:10Z")
Slush rugs are heavy floor mats for cars, like WeatherTech. > **[Amazon.com: Jeep Wrangler Slush Mats, 3 Piece : Automotive](https://www.amazon.com/Jeep-Wrangler-Slush-Mats-Piece/dp/B0013C9I8Y)** > > Buy Jeep Wrangler Slush Mats, 3 Piece: Floor Mats - Amazon.com ✓ FREE DELIVERY possible on eligible purchases Think of getting in your car with slush on your boots, and getting caught by the mats instead of getting all over the interior. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2021, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-parents-again/928772/90 "2021-01-03T01:57:35Z")
Yep, but my best pre-med friend ended up with a career even less exciting than car mats. These are the floor mats in offices and warehouses. His company picks up them up, launders them and replaces them on a rental basis. Hey, beats a jail in the Caymans, but not by much… ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2021, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-parents-again/928772/91 "2021-01-03T07:18:22Z")
Ah, the floppy welcome mats you see at business entrances. Wow, that’s about the most mundane thing I can imagine doing. Still, somebody has to do it so I’m sure it’s steady money, and if you’re at the top it probably isn’t chump change. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2021, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-parents-again/928772/92 "2021-01-03T11:40:47Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > The military action in Grenada in the early 1980s was done to protect American medical students who were studying there. At least that was the excuse they used. I have no doubt that the Reagan administration would have done exactly the same thing if there weren’t a single American on the island. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-parents-again/928772.md?page=4)