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When I arrived and had to go through customs, the "kind" gentleman asked my brother and I a few questions.
Nice man: "Why are you visiting Canada."
Me: "To see Toronto."
Nice man: "What are you coming to see?"
Me: "Um...CN Tower, Rogers Centre, Canadians."
Nice Man: "How are you two related?"
Me: "We are brothers."
Nice Man: "I see."
(Extremely long pause...nice man checks out passports and stars at us quite awkwardly. As if Colombo figured out "whodunnit", the nice man looks up from the two passports and asks us a doozy of a question.)
Nice Man: "But you have...different last names?"
(Oh Canada)
Me: "Yes...we have different fathers."
Nice Man: "Oh I see...good day."
Now that was one hell of a way to enter our friends up north. Coming back was equally enjoyable.
Arriving at the airport, I did the check-in via the kiosk. Simple enough and saves time right? Not here. As I finish, the kind gentleman looks at our tickets and points us in the direction of the other side of the terminal. Confused, but feeling as if the man knew what he was doing...I mean he does work here...we walked down to the other side.
Another man meets us at the check point and looks at our tickets and says proceed to the security check. Just as I am about to takes my shoes off, a woman working for the airlines says that we are in the wrong area. We were told to go back to where we started and check-in there.
So back to the other side and as I walk up to the woman at the check point she asks us for a blue form that we filled out. What blue f*&^ing form!?!? No where when I used the damn kiosk did it say take a blue customs form and fill it out. The woman tells us that they are located next to each kiosk. We check 10 kiosks and not one of them has blue forms.
So we spot them by the baggage check-in area, fill them out and then we were able to pass the gatekeeper. After a few more checkpoint, we were finally on the plane.
Seriously Pearson? Seriously?
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