Well after a very long two days traveling from Saigon to Bangalore we have arrived.
Nick was chewing Xanax like TicTacs and I had to stay near him and purr to calm him down. I’m an accredited emotional support animal. There aren’t a lot of cats with those credentials. We tend to get curious about something we see, or think we see, and wander off to check it out.
Nick and I usually clear customs in Bangalore and always get the same young immigration officer who seems to think that we are up to something nefarious - takes half an hour to get this clown satisfied - but only after he gets his supervisor involved.
The supervisor always chews him out for fucking around. We usually arrive in the middle of the night and personally I think the kid is bored.
But this trip was different - we entered thru Calcutta - took all of 30 seconds. Nick started breaking his Xanax in half for the rest of the trip to Bangalore.
Now - Canadians were not eligible for eVisas during the Modi versus Trudeau two year battle.
With the return of Indian eVisas for Canadians in December we were finally on our way. People ask me why we didn’t go thru the Indian Embassy to get a visa.
Short answer - we had to do that in Hong Kong a few years back - it took a month and a half and we had to make daily visits to the Indian Consulate and stand in line for up to two hours every day - just to see if our visas were ready. Day after day we were told to ‘try again tomorrow’.
So we waited out the eVisa and finally made the trip.
And the shock of all time - Modi was at the arrival gate to welcome each and every Canadian.
There’s a lot of entry points in India which got me to thinking - who the hell is in charge of the country while he is making amends and apologies to Canadians? It was damn nice of him but totally unnecessary.
So I asked him, “Who’s in charge of the country while you are graciously apologizing and welcoming us back?”
He sure didn’t have time for much else - spending all his time at Indian airports greeting Canadian visitors.
He explained, “It’s not like I actually do much on any given day. Since I assigned the Muslim thing to one of my plebes I have a lot of free time. Photo ops take up the majority of my day. The border agents are told to hold Canadians to receive a video chat welcome from me. Video chats - we live in a wonderful age.”
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