The guard asked me the reason for my visit.
I said, “We just had some lunch and got gas.”
My wife in the passenger seat found this sentence to be hilarious and burst out laughing. The border guard gave me a bit of the fish eye but let me through without any issues.
Canadian border guards are dicks in my opinion…never had an issue crossing with the American ones. It was coming back to Canada that I always had problems.
Here in the UK, if you go through the channel tunnel they never used to really care much about your passport
Last time I went to open it to show them and they just waved me through!
Coming back is a different story though
They don’t care who leaves, but they care who comes in
Might have changed a bit now we have left the EU
I bought an old hockey card and my wife bought a cheap bracelet in Vermont.
The dick Canadian border guard made me pull over at customs…went through my car trunk and back seats…then made me pay a duty charge on those two cheap items.
But I suppose the theory is you want a hardass knob with no personality as a border guard.
If they were all nice and peachy, the countries would be less secure I guess.
And one curiosity I found in America is that the clerks all announce the denomination of the bill you have just handed to them. The money all looks the same, so it’s to avoid confusion/ argument as to which bill was forked over.
We don’t have that issue here in Canada with our multi-coloured Bugs Bunny money.
Eh just watch your butt and youll be alright.
Yesssssssss. Ever notice how 3/4 of them are from Quebec? I’m pretty sure that’s the root cause of the issue right there.
I hit Ameican customs in 2002 with a backpack full of pharma. I stupidly underlined a question on do you take medications and put in yes simply because I thought it would help.
What it did was put me in a room with people handcuffed to seats after playing up on planes and getting ready to be sent home. I was panicking and stressed out the to max but after a while because they were busy this guy calls me in and asks a couple of questions then lets me go…I walk through the main entrance hall of Chicago’s O’hare airport by myself with not a person in sight. It was trippy as shite but I got through and missed my flight to NOLA…
Lesson. Don’t do anything different or try to help anyone in Customs. They just do their jobs and anything different is a problem they don’t want to deal with!
Next time wave an open jar of Vegemite under the nose of the customs officer and then make your escape when he passes out.
Haha…I wish it worked. Bloody american Customs are serious business! Bunch of big people who seem hell bent on being asses. Trust me I’m panicking and get called into this office and this guy asks me how much money I have on me. I say honestly…I have $400 American and 11,000 Sen ( Japanese dollar ). He works in an airport and deals with international passengers and asks me honestly what is a Sen??
I love America but not it’s inclusiveness and I’ve lived there two years of my life!
When I was 19, I went with friends to Canada. The friend who was driving was smoking a cigarette when trying to cross the border.
That cigarette caused them to flag us for a search. We were strip searched. All the seats were taken out of the car and cut open.
Luckily, no one was dumb enough to have drugs on them so we were let go. But they said people who smoke are more likely to use drugs and that’s why we got flagged.
It was a horrible experience. We had to put the car back together again. Ugh!
Sounds like a regional thing. I’ve only ever had that happen at a bank while they counted it to me.
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