"HeyBub" wrote in message
m...

My observation is that people are funny. If they're stressed a bit, the
facade that allows them to function in society gets stripped away and they
get even funnier.

A couple of times in recent years when we've gone through Customs after a
foreign trip (or whatever they call Customs these days) the Customs/Homeland
Security guy has been notably unpleasant. My wife has commented afterwards
that the Customs agent was a jerk, and I tell her it is just as likely he
was acting like a jerk to see what our reaction would be, like would we
start sweating and stammering and fidgeting like we were nervous about
something. And since we were cool and polite and didn't flip out he knew we
either had nothing to hide or were really slick international criminals.
Either way we've never had even the rudest Customs agent so much as ask to
look in our luggage, I guess we must fit that dumbass middle-class taxpayer
profile--heh heh.