Nice one Bernie, 'artifacts'!

Living near Blaine, I cross the border about 25 times a year and have only
ever had one bad incident with the US Border Service.

The officers on both sides are just trying to keep bad guys out of their
respective countries and I personally think that's a good idea!  =)

Jake

On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Bernie <berniej@gmail.com> wrote:

> I was crossing into the US in my vanagon for a camping trip and I
> approached
> USCustoms.
> The conversation went like this
>
> Custom Officer: "Citizenship"
> Me: "Canadian"
> Custom Officer: "Where do you live"
> Me: "Vancouver"
> Customs Officer: "How long will you be in USA"
> Me: 3 weeks
> Customs Officier "Where are you going"
> Me: Death Valley, California
> Customs officer: What do you have in the van that you are bringing with
> you?
> I was looking for the word "effects" as in personnel effects but instead
> for
> some strange reason it came out as this
> Me: "personnel artifacts"
> Custom Officer: Casting a long slow glance over me and a long silence
> ensues.
>                         "Artifacts"
>                         "What kind of artifacts"
> Me: "I didn't really mean artifacts. I just have my stuff, clothes and
> personnel
>       stuff.
> Customs Officer:  After a very long silence. "I can't believe you said
> artifacts"
> Me:  Laughing. "Either can I".
> Customs Office: Shaking his head. "Go ahead".
>
> Bernie
> Vancouver
>

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