Your papers please!

system · May 27, 2010, 7:24pm

MiG:

My last trip to the Excited States, I used my credit card a lot while shopping. 50% of the time I used my card, and my wife also ‘borrowed’ it when she shopped.

Every single time I used my card, I was asked for ID to prove it was mine. Even though the signature matched. I guess I’m not white enough, or my name sounds too much like a terry wrist or something.

My wife took my card, with my name written on it, and used it. She signed her name on it, so clearly the signatures didn’t match. Not once was she asked for ID. Guess she’s white enough

This is the first time I’ve ever noticed this, and it was maybe just a Seattle thing, 'cause I don’t remember it ever happening anywhere else in the USA. Not even in the deepest south, where they tend to have a love-hate relationship with people who look like me, was I ever asked for my ID when using my credit card. I’ve never been asked for ID in Canada either.

So yeah, there’s definitely some undercurrents of “we don’t want you here” going on somewhere.

On the other hand, the US border guards had no problem letting me and my kids in, but they questioned my wife, 'cause she didn’t look like either her passport photo or her drivers license photo. Eventually they let her through, though, 'cause she smiled a lot. I wonder if I would get away with that…

Umm, this is the States we’re talking about here. They didn’t think you were a terrorist, they thought you were a Mexican.

system · May 27, 2010, 7:25pm

he’s not mexican?

system · May 27, 2010, 8:06pm

Joke ?

system · May 27, 2010, 8:25pm

No… I wanted to get some free tacos. mmm tacos.

system · May 27, 2010, 8:27pm

mmm taco’s hell’s yeah I wish we had a good Mexican restaurant in town dammit lol

system · May 28, 2010, 5:06am

So he is an asshole
Throw away the key
We dont want him back either