one of the dumbest things i've done while travelling goes hand in hand with one of the smartest things i've done while travelling. the story goes something like this:
my freshman year of college, i decided to take a trip to canada to visit a friend for her birthday. on the way into canada, i stopped at the duty free and bought a few bottles of alcohol. i was only 19 at the time, but since that is the legal drinking age in canada, it was allowed. they took down all my info, including my license plate, i believe. i didn't plan to drink them all while in canada... i was going to bring them back with me to school. so when the time came to go through the checkpoint from canada to the US, the guard ran my license plate and i assume that he saw i bought something at the duty free because he asked if i was bringing back anything that i shouldn't be. i said i wasn't and he asked me to open my trunk... luckily for me, i had stopped about a half-mile before the checkpoint and moved the bottles to the space underneath my trunk where my spare tire was, so all he saw was the stockpile of ketchup-flavored potato chips i was bringing back (why they don't sell these bags of delicious goodness has always baffled me). anyway, he waved me on through and i breathed out a sigh of relief as i drove off. i'm kinda curious as to what would've happened if he had caught me, but i'm perfectly content with how things turned out.
