Was this a driving crossing or were you flying? My parents have lived in Canada since I graduated high school and I have crossed the border many, many times both driving and flying and no one has every once looked into one of my bags.
Where to begin.....JTC and I were driving to Montreal from Saratoga Springs, where we both had a fabulous weekend at the track and wanted to blow our winnings, so to speak. I had maybe 2 grams of weed on me and stashed it in my suitcase. JTC got an inside tip that the border crossing off the main highway would be less time consuming to cross, so we steered to a small border town and attempted to cross.When we got to the gate, we encountered a young border guard who must have failed out of Mountie school because the chip on his shoulder was massive and he was going to make us pay for all the failure and childhood ridicule he must have endured in his short, pathetic little life. With a thick accent, he questioned us like a German Nazi and was completely and utterly blown away that a man from Oregon and a man from Mass were riding in a car together. He found that highly suspicious and when we told him we were internet friends who played fantasy football together, he forced us to park the car in his station house and wait.JTC was summoned into the guard house and was grilled by Frenchy LaRue for about 10 minutes. Next thing I know, Frenchy and JTC return and I'm being asked to step out of the car. From there, Frenchy has us open the trunk, grabs our bags and begins to rifle through them. Since I did about as good a job hiding my stash as a 2 year old playing hide and seek, he found it right away and began acting like he just found a nuclear bomb. "WHAT IS THEEES? IS THEEEES DRUGS? WHOSE DRUGS ARE THESE"?I raised my hand and owned up to it. Frenchy told me to lean up agains the wall and I could literally feel his hard on as he frisked me down. "Now I am going to ask you one veeeeeeery important question and you must tell me the truth or things will be very very bad for you. Are there ANY more drugs in theees car?""No, man. That's it. I have like a nugget of pot. I was going to toss it out and forgot. There's nothing else in the car"."WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEL SEE ABOUT THAT!"

So Frenchy goes through the rest of the car, getting angrier and angrier about finding nothing and finally stops to take me inside the processing center. He sits me down in a room all alone and starts to weigh the weed. This gorgeous girl who was unfortunate enough to work with deputy dog saw me and asked if I was okay. I said "Am I going to go to jail" and she laughed, smiled at me and said "For pot? No way, he's just going to weigh it to see what to do next. Don't worry".

You could almost feel the anger building inside Frenchy as he weighed the contraband and found it to be way less than anything punishable by Canadian law. He took FOREVER to process everything and finally told us that JTC could go on to Montreal, but that I would have to stay behind until the morning. Great solution, Frenchy. You really showed me.After about an hour plus of this nonsense, we faced the dire reality that now we'd have to circle back through the border guards on the US side and tell them exactly what happened. JTC was honest and forthright and told them excatly what transpired, so they pulled us into their guard house, searched his car and grilled us. Like Frenchy, they thought it was perposterous that we were friends and found our story about fantasy football to be about as pathetic and sad as Woz dogsitting for his GF while she's off having sex with others. There were two of them and they basically laughed at us..."Look Russ - these guys have to make friends on the internet! Can you believe that?"

"No kidding, Gene. What a bag of dorks!" So they wasted another hour of our life, found nothing and set us on our way. By then, it was like 11pm and were hell and gone from any major city. JTC was lividly pissed and decided to just push through and drive back to Boston. That guy is freaking machine. I was spent, phsically and emotionally. I told him I was checking out and fully expected to wake up wrapped around a tree in Vermont, but he got us home. Had tickets for the Red Sox vs. Angels game the next day, so that was all good. But there's a part of me that always wonders what in the hell kind of trouble the two of us would have found in Montreal. We were riding high from winning cash, had plenty of Benjamins to burn on strippers and were essentially headbanging all the way up from Saratoga. This was a worse end to a great run than the Sopranos.