16/ April 2023 The South Marysburgh Mirror Behind the Scenes of My Air Cadets Article (Continued from page 13) weird minor tongue lashing from the gent. HUH? The sec- ond time was much worse. He was rude when my wife answered (never a good idea) and the call | had with him quickly degenerated into a shouting match. What the hell? At this point | abandoned my plans of being an interna- tionally recognized photo journalist. Yes, the world will never know what it missed. | did go on to write the article and included some pictures shot from a distance. | sent my Air Cadet contacts a copy of the article and closed the chapter on my misadven- ture. Or so | thought. A period of days later | got emails from one officer, some at the rate of 2-3 per MINUTE. All in all over a 2-3 hour period | received 40+ emails. | fired off a screen shot of my inbox to Trenton and asked them to please stop. An hour or so later the phone rang. Trenton had not seen my email but a senior officer on the distri- bution list had climbed all over one of my contacts and directed him to quickly get to me and get me to turn my computer off as | must have a virus. My computer hadn’t been on that day. The problem was at their end. Mercifully | haven’t had contact with the Air Cadets since. You know, life is truly weird sometimes. | wonder if Sarah Moran needs a hand writing about vegetables? Surely that can’t get me into trouble. .... or can it? Doug McGregor was a bur- geoning journalist and lives on South Bay with his wife Lynda, 2 cats and three dogs. Monday-Friday 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m, By appoi kei odd Constituency office: $503 Hwy 62S, Belleville, Ont K8N OLS (Rossmore Plaza} t only during COVID-19 wit 613-962-1144 + toddsmithmpp.ca | am pee bo assist you Ontario provincial programs and services Bay of Quinte