Local Girl’s day in pictures

13 Comments

1. Ricky
   Posted July 22, 2008 at 12:21 am | Permalink

   Haha, yes! I’ve noticed that too - that the more nervous you become, the more your head turns from portrait to landscape.

   I like the photographs from sketchbook approach. It has a nice warmth to it.

2. azbarite
   Posted July 22, 2008 at 1:54 am | Permalink

   Oh drat! Another dangerous rabble rouser has slipped through the border!

   I’m sure that Cheney and company are working on that mind reading thingy. They’d better work fast though. We hope they’ll be looking for new jobs pretty soon.

   Welcome to the States.

3. SavitaBhabhi
   Posted July 22, 2008 at 7:15 am | Permalink

   Date of Birth…12-10-79 Hope u didnt have to lie for that!!

4. Keith
   Posted July 22, 2008 at 7:19 am | Permalink

   HA! Stick it to the man, Caroline!

5. Wrengoode Cloin
   Posted July 22, 2008 at 8:23 am | Permalink

   You should really blur out some of the details. The FBI will be all over your ass. Last time I checked they didn’t have a sense of humour.

6. Adam_Y
   Posted July 22, 2008 at 11:44 am | Permalink

   I could be wrong, but don’t you have a ‘D’ in your surname?

7. May
   Posted July 22, 2008 at 4:40 pm | Permalink

   This was SO funny! I loved reading your fretting, especially since I would be worried to because of this true story that happened to a friend of mine:
   We lived in Pennsylvania and he worked for a Chinese restaurant where he fell in love with an Asian immigrant working there. She didn’t speak much English, but he wasn’t bothered. To be nice and to spend time with her, he drove her up to Canada to see her family. But since she was a Canadian citizen without any way to return to Canada, they didn’t let her cross the border! On top of that, they searched my friends car so thoroughly that they ripped out the seats!

   Needless to say, I’m glad you got through okay :0) I hope you enjoy America, even though most of us are quite mad.

8. tits
   Posted July 22, 2008 at 4:58 pm | Permalink

   Fucking hell. Compared to me you are like a total arch-criminal-illegal-downloading-drug-lord-pirate and who is it out of the two of us that gets detained for 2 hours every time she goes to the US (even WITH a return ticket)?

   The answer to this question is not the Cliff.

   If I was a US customs official I would send you to guantonimo for, like, forever.

9. local girl
   Posted July 22, 2008 at 5:33 pm | Permalink

   What can i say it must have been my lucky day, they must have got distracted cause they didnt even ask where I was staying and they asked everyone else. I think they must not have noticed my bus ticket was one way. Yes my surname does end with a D! I dropped it out of nervousness. It was mental how easy it was. There were these 3 Irish guys who were quizzed for ages for no reason! I guess I just look totally totally harmless unlike Tits who looks like a ninja assassin. Oh I also had to go back to the coach 3 times cause I kept on forgetting stuff they must have thought “Oh jees this girl is so dumb she’ll make US citizens look smarter by comparison”

10. local girl
    Posted July 22, 2008 at 5:34 pm | Permalink

    Also my dear Tits, one must not overlook the fact I was coming in by land and that apparently way way easier.

11. local girl
    Posted July 22, 2008 at 11:12 pm | Permalink

    It was a mistake - I think from stress

12. Adam_Y
    Posted July 23, 2008 at 12:05 pm | Permalink

    Being mostly Irish I can tell you why they were held for ages… we always are. Legacy of the good-old-bad-old days.

    I was stuck in an airport for 12 hours once, whilst they checked up on me. I was 14 at the time.

    I imagine that’s what it is like for most Muslims these days… or men with beards.

13. lexi
    Posted August 18, 2008 at 9:21 pm | Permalink

    I get nervous going through security and i live here! haha