Ok, so it's taken a little longer than a week. So deal.

Anyway, one of the things that really pissed me off about going out of the country was coming back in. No, we're not looking for terrorists. No, we're not keeping 'our borders secure'. All of that is political bullshit buzzwording. What we're doing is hiring bored, underpaid people to stand in a booth, ask if you are an american, and when you nod, you drive through.

That is, unless you get caught in a lane with a Hispanic-american person (aka chicano) running the booth and you happen to have someone of Hispanic origin in the car with you.

See, these people think they have a ton of stuff to prove. I don't get it. They're harder on everyone, including gringos. We went to a wedding one night in Texas, and it took an act of congress to get past the uber-bitch running the booth that evening. We stop, she asks where we're going all dressed up, I tell her, and in her disbelief, she goes 'wheres the present?' and opens the doors to the van without asking. I was at a point where I was about to say "If you'll hop in I'll take them a genuine 100% pet bitch for their wedding gift." Instead, all I muster is "I'm broke. My presence is enough for them. Here's an invitation sweetheart, wanna see it?" She goes through EVERYTHING with a fine toothed comb, even running a background check on the missus...something they NEVER do. When she finally came to the realization that she was bordering on being unethical due to our unusually long (and unfair) detention, she let us go without a word, just this bitchy finger motion.

At the wedding that night, everyone was getting there late. Half of them mentioned a 'bitch at the bridge'.

Grrrr.

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I wish i had heat in my car. I'm tired of wearing an alpaca fur beanie in the car every day. I look like a 5'10" toddler.