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Subject:Re: What do you say to the customs guys when heading South??
From:Don Hanson
Date:Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:06:26 -0800

OOOps....

  ...continuing on...

  blend in, do what everyone else is doing, don't joke, don't stand out,
get it behind you and get on with the trip..

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 8:04 PM, Don Hanson <dhanson928@gmail.com> wrote:

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

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