Note to the Customs Agent standing just outside the door as I write this article:
Dear Sir,
I forgot to tell the Agricultural Inspection Agent someting important. Turn the can of beans that you confiscated from me upside down. You will see that it is empty - no illegal foodstuffs have crossed the border in my luggage.
OK, can I come out now? This little room you have me in is getting a claustrophobic and the loudspeaker here at LAX just announced that my connecting flight is leaving soon.
Besides, that Kafkaesque man in the corner--the guy with the Lone Ranger smile--has been has been crooning into a matchbox ever since we got here and now he's shoving little bits of stale baloney sandwiches into it. Says he's a travel writer. I swear, I've never seen him before....
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