Posted by Hugh MacKay on January 05, 2009 at 03:43:50 from (216.208.58.140):
In Reply to: U.S. Canada border posted by john in la on January 04, 2009 at 08:06:41:
John: I think the day is fast approaching that passport will be necessary. In fact my thoughts are if you have one right now it may avoid surprises. Customs agents can be a volatile crowd. One day they are nice as blueberry pie, next day like dealing with a grizzley bear. Nice to one person, nasty to the next.
I don't envy them their job, they have a lot of faces show up in front of them every day. I expect they see a lot of nutcases, criminals, etc.
I used to cross twice weekly. One thing I've always said about crossing that border, be polite and be quick and decicive with your answers. They usually ask purpose of your trip and where you are going. On the way home they always ask how long you've been out of the country, and did you buy anything.
Very ocasionally Customs agents will let their hair down and joke with you. For example, one morning I was going to Hamtramck a suburb of Detroit with a trailer load of cabbage. I passed him the manifest which tells him details of the delivery. He asked what I had on? I replied. "cabbage". I detected a slight eastern European accent. He then asked where I was going? I replied, "Hamtramck". (Very important to say Hamtramck rather than just Detroit) His next responce,"A whole trailer load cabbage going into Hamtramck, when those old Polish guys get that boiled and eaten, the resulting gas will be the worst pollution Detroit has known."
Another morning and this was the first commercial delivery I made to Detriot. I had been there a couple of times with other drivers. My son was visiting, so I took him along as navigator. You have to remember to Canadians most Michiganites tend to pronounce o as a, some worse than others. I got this lady Customs agent and she asked if I was only making one "STAP" in Detroit. I'm a bit deaf in my left ear and the result I had to ask her 4-5 times "What or Pardon". My son got laughing so hard he had to pretend to scratch his forehead to hide his laughter. He figured the old man was headed for the big house in the US Customs compound. Finally in disgust she said, "just go to Detroit", and she slambed the window. I turned to Sandy, said, "what is so damn funny, and what the hell was she saying?" I soon learned Michiganeeze.
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