To: ralfph who wrote (6089 ) 12/30/2004 5:55:19 PM From: marcos Read Replies (2) | Respond to Good style, now to put a Cummins diesel in it, eh ... customs guys could make great home movies if they were allowed, no doubt ... irrationality is not all on one side however - i haven't crossed that border since years ago some little wannabe dictator at the truck crossing grilled me for half an hour, over nothing, he just decided right off to dislike me, went from accusing me of trying to enter the country to get a job, straight to accusing me of carrying over ten thousand in cash, after i'd carefully counted out all cash i had and it was less than that, by design .... i held up a debit card and said here's the major cash, and it's perfectly legal, this enraged him, he heard it as 'and you can't do anything about this, dickhead', which of course was precisely what i meant .... all i was trying to do was get to Sea-Tac and board on a last-minute ticket to LAX, which used to be quite cheap from a place on Broadway, and a good way to get to México for two or three hundreds ... now we take only direct flights with JAL, too much risk at US border even though my wife now has a canadian passport, she still appears muy mexicana and that's considered a crime ... very murky picture there for civil rights now, and having made political comment on the net, i ain't gonna take the chance, better to go straight through to where you get a big friendly smileca.finance.yahoo.com
