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Well done you did it!!! Not as comfortable as would have liked but you survived. They are complete full time assholes with no compassion whatsoever but that’s what they’re trained to be like - it’s their way or no way! Congrats anyway. X
You never been treated like that at US immigration? We have been arrested for not knowing the route that had been booked for us by a third party who had told us we needed no visas landed in Puerto Rico and you couldn't transit. It wasn't pleasant believe me.
Had no visa when we entered Singapore think it was, but I didn’t realise and I’d just asked if there were any upgrades when we were checking in! They actually said yes! but we needed to have a visa first of all! They were very helpful and got them for us - charged us $50 each when it was free from home. Looking back it was a bit surreal. Must have felt sorry for me with OH in his wheelchair - unlike when we got to Oz and they threatened to fine me for not declaring dry roasted nuts! Being first time visitors was what got me away with just a warning.
Oz is very touchy about bringing in food - we were warned about not being able to take anything into the country. Then they sprayed us all with insect spray...
I had Jaffa cakes taken from me in Sydney, my friend had requested them and crunchie bars!! All taken even though wrapped and sealed!!🤔🤔🤔🤔 NZ we had to get out our walking boots for them to check the soles were clean( this I understood!!)
Wow, just wow. Mind you, I had already gone all pale and wan when I read your second paragraph. You got up at 5.30am???? And stayed up? Respect woman, respect. 😮x
I did enjoy this story and it boils down to 'what the hell happened to good manners?' Courtesy gets things done, calms things down and gets us moving. It isn't rocket science and makes you wonder who trains security staff these days. I particularly liked: '...the 12 year old, British man-boy, security officer...'
I wonder if they actually wanted you to sip a bit from the bottle to test if it is really water or not and then you would get to keep the bottle... maybe I am too rational and it was just usual un-yielding rules about "no liquids" allowed. We will never know....
That is what my husband said!!! ...but (had I understood that) and refused to drink, don't you think they'd want to "talk" to me privately and perhaps examine the "water?" Not just let me throw it in the bin and walk into the Embassy! It was one of the most confusing encounters I have ever had.
Bloody Hell Mell! You should have asked to see the manager!!
Wells Fargo has gone to pot since Dale Robertson retired!!!
Keep rocking on. Good luck with the op.
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Hmmm, I fear asking for a manager, at the American Embassy, would be like asking to be thrown in jail! As far as WF goes, idjits. Cheers RE: Op!
Your blog rather endorses the reasons why I'd really rather not visit the US again, even though my dear brother lives there. I was over there in the early 80's with my boyfriend of the time.
I know, and I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion that I don't really want to live here in the UK either, especially with all this Brexit nonsense plus the ever growing big brother and MANIC bureaucracy. I once told an armed policeman outside the back of the F and C Office in London that he could go ahead and shoot me if he wanted to - I was so cross with his attitude!
There are the typed ones using colons, semicolons and open/close brackets. Then there are the ones from their devices. I have a Chromebook and there is an emoticon icon on the in-screen keyboard
That water story happened to me the first time I flew from Heathrow to SA. TOOK BOTTLE WATER. OFFICIALS TOLD ME THEY GOING TO BIN IT. THAT MEANS YOU HAVE TO BUY THE EXPENSIVE AIRPORT SHOPS' WATER. iF 250ML LIQUID IS ALL THAT YOU'RE ALLOWED TO TAKE IN, HOW COME SOME ENTRPENEUR HASN'T JUMPED ON THE BANDWAGON AND PRODUCED LIQUID, ESP water, IN 250ML BOTTLES????? Sorry for the caps. I don't look up when typing.
I haven't been anywhere you can take a single item with 250mls - the maximum size is 100mls and that must be the pack size, not a 250ml pack with only 100mls in it. But I carry an empty water bottle with tap water from home - nothing wasted if you then tip it away - and ask airside at a cafe if someone will fill it if there aren't drinking fountains. I haven't been refused yet. I just say I need tap water to take tablets.
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