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Copyright 2012 Andrew Dobson
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Returning to the USA was more frustrating and time consuming than leaving it.

The boarder patrolmen were extremely suspicious about my books, thinking they had been printed in the UK even though I repeatedly told them I brought them with me for a convention. The fact that I had some packs of Jaffa Cakes was also a huge concern because they might contain peanuts which would contaminate things, even though I bought them IN the lobby of the airport after going through security.

Overall it was awful. I felt like I was a criminal trying to escape, not a citizen trying to get back in.

Edit: The problem with the books being printed in the UK has to do with taxing. If my inventory was from the UK, that would mean I'd have to be taxed on my books for entering the USA. The problem with the Jaffa Cakes? Yeah that was sounding pretty bull. It's like they pulled me aside but then realize there wasn't anything wrong so they started making up excuses to make it sound like they hadn't goofed up.


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:iconsortmasivci:
~sortmasivci May 7, 2013
ROFL this was a good one xD
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:iconjacob3908:
~Jacob3908 Feb 26, 2013
Customs is a pain.

Nuff said.
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Mood: Not Impressed ~DarqfangofSeido Dec 1, 2012  Student Writer
So disappointed in airport security.

Dammit. No emotes for disappointment.

I'll just go with this one.
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~Bytemebebe Oct 3, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
If only you could've gotten away with stuffing a Jaffa Cake in their mouth (without getting arrested/tasered/overly man-handled/etc) and have told them to "eat it", when they were starting the nonsense over the cakes that you bought at their own airport. Yeesh :(
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*HavensGoneMad Sep 25, 2012
dislikes soft foods with nuts in them
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~VairiArt Sep 21, 2012  Student Digital Artist
Man, so true. It's worse when you're coming back in a boat terminal. -.- They keep you there for an hour and a half and make you look through these weird eye machines. What the crap are they trying to look for? High tec terrorist technolgy hidden in the nerves of your eyesockets?
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~GenRhapsodos Sep 15, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Paranoia and incompetence play a major role in our way of life...
But can you blame us?
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~SpiritOfSakura Sep 13, 2012
Peanuts...contaminating things? What the heck? (unless it's related to allergies or something...)
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~AskEndestPlz Sep 10, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
i came back from a cruise to bermuda, then a stupid lady was yelling at my grandma for bringing cookies back home >.>
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~borisvdb Aug 28, 2012
I have flown multiple times to and from he US, smuggling foreign goods, including cases of beer. This situation has never happened to me.
Any kind of powder on the other hand, they will be extremely suspicious of.
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