I like the photo shootingstar.

Whereabouts I live the boarder crossing was always a "no big deal" thing. With a bridge and tunnel from Detroit to Windsor we often shot across for dinner or shopping and the guards would simply ask, "Citizenship?" and there was no need to produce a document for either side of the border. Over the years they started to ask for id occasionally. Then some stupid fool terrorists messed it up for everybody and now we have all this "stand on your head and read the alphabet backwards stuff" to deal with.

What a pain, I need a passport for dinner across the river...sigh.