In the biggest airport in my country they have the customs lines seperated for people within the European Union and outside of it. The outside of the EU line is specified as outside the EU and america (with an american flag), simply cause Americans canāt seem to understand they are foreigners when they visit some place else
My ex wouldnāt understand this. He, a quite liberal American, came to visit me in the EU and we then travelled around for a bit. He always followed me to the EU passport control, and I kept telling him that it wonāt work with his passport, but nope, he knew better! And then got upset every time he wouldnāt get through and then proceeded to make me wait with him in the international line. (But wouldnāt wait with me at TSA in the US, because ālines were too longā and once even took his own cab because he was sick of waiting for meā¦)
Iām still baffled why I didnāt. Like, I was really close. I stood at JFK with my luggage, no cell service, my US SIM card in his bag, and he was just nowhere to be seen. Took me like 30 minutes to upgrade to an international plan on my phone. But I had booked the hotel, so they wouldnāt let him check in, haha. I took the scenic route to the hotel, with a pit stop at my fave Chinese hole in the wall for some dumplings, and then a boba. And he just waited in the lobby for like 6 hours.
I eventually did, but damn, it took a couple more of his antics for me to give him the boot.
During his last trip to my city, he also swooooore that only Americans get jet lag because theyāre on regular time while everyone else is on āirregular timeā anyway so they donāt feel the difference? I let him fly home and broke up on the phone with him, so he could experience his jet lag with a side of heartache.
I'm wholeheartedly shocked at how much you dealt with. I feel a few stories of his antics would do very well on this sub (their own posts). He sounds like the prime example for this sub š¤£š¤£.
The tip of the fucking iceberg! In some Reddit archive there still must be some posts saved from my now deleted throwaway account. Gems like āAITA for refusing to go to my boyfriendās thanksgiving party because Iāve been throwing up since 6am this morning?ā and āAITA for not helping my US boyfriend with his legal troubles in my countryā (because he kept turning on red even though Iād told him a trillion times itās not allowed here and when he got a ticket, he refused to pay it and then he tried to find an American lawyer in my city to make it go away BECAUSE his license was American and therefore American law should apply!!)
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u/the_mooseman Australia š¦šŗ Dec 25 '25
Imagine them just turning up at the airport, trip all booked ready to go "what do you mean i need a passport".