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In reply to the discussion: US teenagers have bagpipes seized at Canada border after competition [View all]Diclotican
(5,095 posts)jberryhill
Indeed - and I tend to be somewhat cranky when I am tired - and then I tend to have a small fuse to please customs with when they try to probe me for contraband of sorts - that I do not have.... One of my worst experiences was when I was stuck at Copenhagen for 8 hours - because I lost the flight back home as planned - someone outside of my control had screwed up the time difference between UK and Denmark - and then I had to sit there for 8 hours in a really bad mood - I could have killed one if I had been more cranky than I was then... I stared the journey at 4 in the morning - and was back home 2 in the middle of the night, the next day - and was home with the last aircraft home to Norway (Then it was ENFB or Fornebu ) who is now closed and replaced by ENGM (Gardermoen) and then I had to drive for one hour back home - I was not in good mood when the dam customs wanted to check out my bad socks and underwear - and one bottle of red whine I had... He told me the red wine was an excellent choice to meat
And it was later one - but at the moment I was not in mood to tell... But with the last rest of my "politeness" I was able to let him do his job - and get out of the customs area - and out to my car for the rest of the trip...
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