"I'm sorry sir, but you're going to have to surrender these. They're a Product of Cuba." He pronounces the capital letters. "We have an Embargo against Cuba."
"I thought there was a one-box exception. For personal use?"
"No exceptions. Embargo means Embargo."
"Didn't there used to be though? When did it change?"
"There have never been exceptions," he intones in shades of Orwell. "There has always been the Embargo."
Bastards. That was a good box of cigars.
1 comment:
I knew that so-called exception was just invented by cigar salesman who want you to buy from them! Luckily I never tell the Customs people about mine when I come through.
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