So arriving in New York to a large queue at immigation. They usually ask the standard Q's in a boring but serious monotone voice. "What is the purpose of your visit to this country?", "Where do you plan to stay?" Etc etc. I usually get asked a few more cause I have a number of US stamps and they tend to get a bit suspicious.
So after standing in line for about half an hour or more I step up to the box. The guy puts his hand up and told me to wait a minute. I thought I'd stepped up too soon or something. You never know with these guys. He preceded to go to the next immigation box get some chewing gum off the guy have a bit of a laugh then came back to me. Without even looking at my passport or the computer he asked me why I was so excited to visit this country. I told him the plan as he started flicking through my passport. After this he started telling me about some national geographic show I should see with all these top things in the world that are amazing. He then said, hold on I'll google this for you. So with about a 1000 people in line behind me, we start chatting for about half an hour about travelling!! You know me how I never shut up about it. He started writing down places in Mexico and California to see. Then showed me some really cool GPS phones I could get so I wouldn't lose myself. Then there was talk about tv shows like Man vs Wild and living out in the middle of nowhere. Told me a story about how he got lost in Maine snow mobiling and was scared shitless. Asked do I ever get in situations like this while I'm away. We were just there having a laugh. Big change to what I'm used to with border patrol!! Looking behind at my cousin in the line who was wondering what the hell was going on. He'd befriended a dutch guy at this stage who was getting pissed off waiting to long. Then in mid conversation we see this woman walk by and he says: Daaang, look at the ass on her!! Was a fair big ass all right!!
Spent the next two hours laughing about this guy, Definitely a good introduction to America.
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