heightened security

so i have two passports. like a super-secret international spy, except not that cool. anyway, one of my passports houses my UK visa documents and the other is for personal travel. i have to carry both of them because i "personally travel" out of the UK on trips and "officially re-enter" the UK with my visa.

so the other day, i travelled with dan and his parents over the channel to france. i was juggling all of our passports as we exited the ferry port and went through french border security. in my haste, i inadvertently handed the nice french girl sherry's passport, steve's passport, holly's passport, and holly's other passport. she glanced through the passports quickly as a long line of cars queued up behind us. suddenly she runs off, yells something in french to another french person, he hands her what turns out to be the entrance stamp, she stamps the four passports, gives us a funny look, and passes them back to me through the window. au voir! merci!

as i was shuffling through the documents to put them back in the appropriate wallets, i noticed my mistake. holy crap, i have entered france twice and dan hasn't entered france at all.

there was no way to rectify our mistake as i didn't want to explain my super-spy status to someone in a foreign language that i don't speak (especially since half of the english border agents don't understand why i have two passports, and we share a language), we couldn't turn around on the four-lane, one-way street leaving the ferry port, and i didn't want to be sent to french prison. so we kept on.

as we were leaving france a few days later, no one seemed to give a crap that dan hadn't ever entered france.

so much for increased security measures.