Vancouver, Day Two
July 12, 2005
I went to bed last night with a headache that felt like it might be terminal. And I woke up with it, too. A few hours into my conference my brain was ricocheting around my skull like a rubber ball and I had to make my way back to the drugstore at which I bought my AC adapter last night.
I could tell I looked bleary.
“Most cashiers out there are completely ignorant,” said a cashier in the drugstore, who, against all improbability, was named Ulric. He said this to a couple from somewhere far away buying laundry detergent. Until then I wasn’t aware that there was an elite brotherhood of skilled cashiers that stood apart from the slack-jawed masses of regular ones.
I swallowed a fistful of ibuprofen and waited for the internal banging to stop so I could think again. I tried to take a photograph of a guy washing windows on a building, but was stopped by a strident but probably well-meaning gentleman who insisted I was erring by shooting into the light.
“I want him silhouetted,” I protested lamely, not realizing until a half hour later that I’d somehow set my camera to overexpose by two shots, so anything I might have photographed would have looked ass.
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Everyone who enters the United States is subject to search, including US Customs & US Immigration Agents…
I’ve been searched; I’ve been blown right through lane… airports and land borders alike!
Good guys and Bad guys (or girls) all look the same, and they can’t stop the bad guys without looking at a few good ones.
It is just a matter of perspective. Ever notice that police pull over out of state cars more frequently than in state cars? Did you know that 80% of large size narcotics seizures on traffic stops comes from an out of state car. If you are not doing anything wrong, no reason to worry – Right?
Sounds to me like you just felt violated. So if you don’t want to be subject to border search authority, don’t cross the border.
The whole story is pretty stereotypical of our society today. People complain when there are no cops around when they see a speeder – yet when the same person receives a ticket – the Police Officer is a jerk.
So I’d recommend instead of being upset at the Customs guys & gals for looking at your – thank them for risking their life to take drugs and felons of the street, and what little they are able to do to deter illegal immigrants.
*by the looks of things you will remove my comment since, my guess is, you won’t agree with my opinion. Bloggers & their Editing*