I love how the same leaders who regarded our terrorists as cute and cuddly now think that all Europeans are terrorists OMG.
I don’t know if it’s a silly reaction, but I just feel offended, you know? It mars everything. I remember landing at Newark and being all, “New continent! Yaay!” and being extremely excited to finally be in America.
I had a connecting flight to North Carolina, and oh my God, immigration was painful. The queue for Europe was *massive* and I had to run, yes, run, to beat as many Germans, Swedish, French and Italians as I could. Then it was nearly half an hour of waiting. When I did get to the desk, they asked me everything; where I was staying, did I plan to kill people over there, what colour were my socks?
(They soon found out about the socks when they forced me to take my shoes off and walk through a scanner.)
Grraugh! Not just a time-waster, but a real downer. And I wanted to say, excuse me, dude—but I’m very happy living in Europe. Thank me for my tourist dollars!
(That would have probably ended in a more intimate search.)
Oh, definitely watch 1984, Ang. Let me know what you think—I’d love to see what your thoughts are.
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Date: 2005-02-16 10:09 am (UTC)I don’t know if it’s a silly reaction, but I just feel offended, you know? It mars everything. I remember landing at Newark and being all, “New continent! Yaay!” and being extremely excited to finally be in America.
I had a connecting flight to North Carolina, and oh my God, immigration was painful. The queue for Europe was *massive* and I had to run, yes, run, to beat as many Germans, Swedish, French and Italians as I could. Then it was nearly half an hour of waiting. When I did get to the desk, they asked me everything; where I was staying, did I plan to kill people over there, what colour were my socks?
(They soon found out about the socks when they forced me to take my shoes off and walk through a scanner.)
Grraugh! Not just a time-waster, but a real downer. And I wanted to say, excuse me, dude—but I’m very happy living in Europe. Thank me for my tourist dollars!
(That would have probably ended in a more intimate search.)
Oh, definitely watch 1984, Ang. Let me know what you think—I’d love to see what your thoughts are.