jeneralize

I lied to a border guard recently for no good reason other than I didn’t want to have to try to explain why I’d driven to Seattle and then turned around and driven back to Vancouver. (”Well, I was supposed to be meeting friends - no, I don’t know where exactly - exit 68, I think, in a Denny’s or Shari’s or some ghetto place like that - no I don’t know where they are currently - they live in Vancouver but they’re from the states - they sent me an email and I didn’t see it before I left so when I finally called I found out they had a personal emergency …” Yadda yadda yadda.)

I knew the border guards would be suspicious that I’d only been across the border for 2.5 hours, but I figured that that true story sounded so flaky that I’d get called in *for sure*. So instead I lied and told the border guard that my Mom had called and that there was a family emergency so I had to turn around and come back to Canada.

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