Tuesday, October 07, 2003 :::
 

Pre 9/11 story

The whiteman produced several marijuana cigerettes on our way to Montreal. It was a brash move, but then again we were brash fellahs on our way to surf the cold north atlantic. One pit stop in Montreal could turn into a raging nite at club soda, grinding on the always attractive french Canadian girls. So instead we foolishly ventured off into the darkness in search of the I89 border crossing in a puff of blue smoke. In our haste to leave we had haphazardly piled up our camping and sporting equipment into the bed of the pickup in a crazed jumble. We were searching for this particular border crossing because our friend had mentioned that last month he had buried a considereable sum of illegal narcotics at the gas station a few miles past the customs yard. After several wrong turns and much jocularity we finally pulled up to the uniforms at US Customs. They took one look at our red eyes and our ridiculous pile of gear in the back and asked us to come inside. My heart was pounding. They proceeded to separate us and using a frightening technique took our passports then with the aide of a computer printed out what appeared to me to be a long record on each of us. Then staring at the printout, the guys asked me if I had anything to tell them. "Any past troubles with the law in the US?" "no sir" was all I could muster hoping all my foibles and follies over the years were somehow not on his mysterious papers. After what seemed an eternity incredibly we were kicked loose and we bumbled bleary eyed into the United States of America. Amazingly enough down the road a few miles was the aforementioned gas station. We suspiciously stopped and stumbled about looking for the stash. After a while we probably looked pretty strange but this was pre 9/11 and even though several border patrol trucks rolled through for doughnuts and coffee, no one paid the two surf idiots any mind. Eventually we gave up on the package and rattled over the White Mountains into Maine to enjoy another fall hurricane swell in the North east.

pre 9/11 story

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