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Old Aug 1, 2012, 11:14 am
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Originally Posted by mecabq
My countries visited included Afghanistan, and the agent asked, how's Afghanistan? I answered minimally, like "it's fine, I was there helping with the reconstruction." He said, "how are the girls?" "Great." He said, "I hear they have great beaches there."

I am not sure if he was (1) stupid, (2) just trying to be cute, (3) thinking that he was cleverly trying to catch me in a lie, as if I would have any reason to lie. (Maybe some combination of (1), and (2) or (3).)
Likely a combination, but I've heard the "how are the girls there" on more than one occasion. I'm guessing they're trained to ask this to distract you before the 'real' question.
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