# Culture shock and reunion adventures: it's the MMP!

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Tags:** mmp\
**Created:** [August 21, 2006, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-shock-and-reunion-adventures-its-the-mmp/369570 "2006-08-21T10:52:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2006, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-shock-and-reunion-adventures-its-the-mmp/369570/381 "2006-08-28T02:02:30Z")

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**Drae** - I’m glad you got there safely - Just be careful with those brownies and for goodness sake don’t try to bring any of them home. (But if you could manage to squeeze a few thru the CD drive, that’d be okay 😉 )  
I think I shall put Amsterdam at the top of my Europe dream trip list. It’ll be a long time before I can afford to go, financially and physically, but I do intend to go at some point

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**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2006, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-shock-and-reunion-adventures-its-the-mmp/369570/382 "2006-08-28T02:50:40Z")

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Took my first civil service test on Saturday. It was easy-peasy. I was the first person of the nearly sixty folks there to finish. I generally do finish tests very quickly. Now I have to take several more in order to qualify for all the jobs I would be able to do. You have to take different tests for different jobs. I need to take–lemme think–four more for all the jobs. We’re not permitted to take more than one test each time unless we can get a special exception. So, considering how far I must go to take these tests, I am going to be pestering some people in Baton Rouge by phone this coming week to see if they’ll make an exception for me. I am not at all sanguine about it, though. In two weeks, the results should be here, but as my SDMB membership also expires in two weeks and I really can’t spare the funds to renew it till I actually get a job again, y’all will have to wait to find out what I got.

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