Ramblings of a Northerner

Never do any work

July 12th, 2006

Made the mistake just now of saying the word “work” (by accident, it’s 5am, so I’m easily confused) when talking to a customs agent.  That prompted about 7 minutes of repeated questions and exploration of just what I do in my professional life (the answers he didn’t understand anyway) until grudgingly he let met through.  Bottom line is don’t ever say that keyword to a border official, even if it is casual and not in reference to your actual job (for example, “I don’t really do much work”, “reading is too much like work” or “we irk’d someone when we were late” — might even avoid “you going to cook that in a wok”), it triggers them into all kinds of nasty behaviour.  I’m travelling for meetings, always meetings, the unending and ambiguous meetings that I need to fly for.  Customs might actually have something there since we all know meetings aren’t actually “werk”.

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