Random Thoughts

[orthodoc]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

I was crossing into Canada when the man asked if we had drugs. My wife whips out an unlabeled pill bottle with a few of each of her prescriptions in it.

That held us up for a while.

Canadian customs officers are FAR more hostile than American ones.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by orthodoc

Canadian customs officers are FAR more hostile than American ones.

That's an interesting observation. I've found the Canadians to be pretty hospitable and polite, whereas the Americans to be 50% rude pricks. I wonder if it's a mindset, on both sides, to be nice to guests but keep the natives in line?

[Snakeadelic]

Originally Posted by orthodoc

Canadian customs officers are FAR more hostile than American ones.

Weirdly, in my days of occasionally crossing over from Washington to British Columbia, the one and only time I ever got hostile treatment at a border station was when a Canadian friend was driving me home! It was the Americans who flipped out on us. They looked at my driver's license (but not his, although he was driving), then proceeded to ask me things like where I was born, where my mother was born, what was her maiden name, where did I live, why had I been to Canada...and they asked everything twice. They only asked him if he was Canadian and planning to stay in the US after dropping me off. He said no and they went right back to grilling me! It was so strange...