I recently tried to re-enter the US at the Canadian border, and was confronted by the smarmiest border guard. He studied my passport, looked at me, and asked, "What do you do for a living?"
"I'm a writer," I said.
He looked at me doubtfully, "Does that pay the bills?"
Who the hell does this guy think he is? He's a glorified tollbooth worker! It was like I was being inspected by my dad. This is how it should have gone instead:
"What do you do for a living?"
"I am also a border guard."
"Where? I don't have any record of that."
"Between New York and New Jersey. Its the same thing as what you do. People pull up, I tell them they can come in, but they can't bring their eight dollars in with them."
3 comments:
#112 was so much fun you had to do it again? Or just freaked out by 13?
You should have said, "I'm a blog writer". Then he may have had a point.
O_o
One time when I was crossing the border I got asked that. I said "software engineeer" and he said "cool!" It stuck in my mind because I thought it was weird too for him to comment on people's careers--it is even weirder now to think that they actually dis people with 'lesser' ones!
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