On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Joy Hecht <jhecht@alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> I'd also add - from experience - never volunteer information they didn't
> ask for.  It can't help, and it might hurt.
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> Joy
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  American Customs aren't such nice people to deal with sometimes.
  Think about it:  You sit there day after day and watch other people go
through your border station on their way to an adventure or coming
home...Or in a place like Algodones, BC....limping or groping blindly or
holding an ice pack to their jaw after a visit to the only health care they
can afford..
  And you get the same lame jokes from the same type person, day after
day....
  Gotta be a pretty depressing job...
   Anything out of the ordinary from anyone going through, it gains the
attention of the agent....so