UK Immigration
Immigration officer: What is the purpose of your visit?
Me: I'm visiting my sister-in-law.
IO: Is she your husband's sister, or your brother's wife?
Me: husband's sister
IO: Why isn't your husband visiting?
Me: He has to teach.
IO: It says here you are a professor. What do you teach?
Me: English, rhetoric.
IO: What is rhetoric?
Me: We teach Speaking, Writing, Communicating...
IO: But doesn't that just come with practice? I used to get up and give presentations and I got better with time.
Me: Sure! And there are also improvisational moments that require responding to a situation.
IO: Like this one right here?
Me: Yep.
IO: welcome to the UK.
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U.S. Border Control, JFK
IO: State College is the name of an actual town?
Me: Yep, it's where Penn State is.
IO: (shaking head): go ahead.
