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To: TobagoJack who wrote (131101)	2/28/2017 1:23:35 AM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (2) of 217518

Actually there was another officious Border woman in the Venice airport in 1989, but that was just a typical Italian "work slow-down". Something idiot Italians do in place of a strike. The one woman agent about 35 meticulously looked at every single stamp on every single page of everyone's Passport, giving each Passport and incredible 5 minute review, even examining the bindings. There were 50 people ahead of us so I sat down on my suitcase and took out a book. People around me asked what was happening, so I told them in a loud voice, "This is Italy. It's just some idiotic work action where they're "working slow" to demonstrate why Italy is the most backward nation in Europe. They're going to be assholes through the entire process, so find a comfortable place to sit down." The Italian Customs woman glared at me and snapped closed the Passport in her hand and walked back into her office." Seconds later 3 other Italian Customs agents came out of the office and quickly cleared everyone with the perfunctory "Welcome to Italy" and Passport stamp. People around me were giving me thumbs up saying, "Looks like you got that fixed." So it is possible to embarrass officious cretins out of acting like jackasses if you approach it right. I already knew that game from other trips dealing with businesses and services in Italy. It's like the French SNCF window-woman who slamed down the shutter on her window mid-sentence exactly when her lunch break began. It startled a poor couple from Kansas so I had to explain France to them.

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