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The thing I confabulated this with, was a memory of a TSA agent and I, exchanging a "forbidden" item. That was also really weird, though I kind of get why the overreaction exists; surely someone in an airport somewhere's died of a keychain-pocket-knife before.

OK, seattle; Washington State is one of my favorite places. I'm african, I didn't think twice: I mistakenly walked out of the bar with my beer in my hand, to fetch something from the car.

The ten minute fiasco that followed, during which I was not permitted to re-enter the bar with my beer, but not permitted to put my beer in the trash can, nor permitted to "finish it" and throw the can away, I had to "pass it over the line" with outstreched arms, as though it was radioactive.

(edit: mis-remembered. I actually had to pass it over the wall that surrounded the entrance, not over the entranceway itself. Maybe that's part of the rules).

There were no cops on the scene, but I FELT we were on the verge of someone calling nine-fucking-one-one.

In order to re-enter the pub (closest to my airbnb), I had to "ask forgiveness", and I was "lucky enough" to have it bestowed on me.

Honestly I felt like a forty year old child.

Don't get me wrong, I LOVE the USA, but your towns and cities are full of rule-followers doing herd-passive-aggressive self-enforcement, and live-and-let-live is a rare feeling. The article is right, it's probably corona and other issues causing the shortfall, but having watched your guy bringing that undercurrent of nastiness out into the open, is anyone actually surprised by this?

I moved from Nicaragua to Mexico before Corona, and I'm waiting it out here: I was so surprised by this place (and by Nica before it).

There surely is a lot of asylum woe on the border, but I can't really believe anyone would want to leave here and go there, and nor can any of the other delightful cultured sweet kind and wonderful "bad hombres" who live here.

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