My Kafkaesque Day (very long, and not for the paranoid)

[Tonks]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "dungrollin" 
<spotthedungbeetle at h...> wrote:
> 
> I've just been cleaning up some old folders on my computer, and 
> found this, an account of a day I spent at Heathrow Airport on 
April 8th 2003, which I thought might make someone laugh.


Tonks:

Lol!!  I did get a kick out of it.  Unfortunately it reminds me of a 
very unpleasant experience with the customs from the US to Canada 
and back to the US. What a nightmare that was. So I am having 
flashbacks now.  I can't even talk about it. Let's just say that I 
may never go to Canada again!!  I am probably wanted there now 
anyway. (Just kidding
  well 
  maybe
)

It was just a nightmare.  And if you think of taking something to 
Canada to sell there
 well just don't.  It was hell, pure and 
simple.  Actually Hell might have been nicer.  Oh god, I have to go 
do something else to take my mind off of this
  I just can't go 
though the memory of this again.  Long, long, very narrow bright 
yellow halls going nowhere, not one chair in the place and truck 
drivers looking at me like I was some lost crazy lady.  And that 
nasty Immigration lady
  who tried to bait me after telling me that 
since I was not a citizen I could not sell anything, but had to hire 
a Canadian
 she wanted to see what I had to sell because her son 
might want one
  I almost fell for it too.  Not to mention the 
hours
  hours..   and more  hours
 without a chair
 hot day
 and why 
are the Canadians trucking garbage to the US anyway?
 oh the 
smell
   Flashbacks
  I just can't take it


Oh
 gotta go get some ice cream or chocolate
  If I were a drinker 
I'd say a stiff Scotch or two would be in order.  Bye..

Tonks_op