Who The Hell Is This Guy?

Crossing the border was a real comedy.

Twice.

I made both the mainland Chinese and the Hong Kong immigration officers laugh ... and that's not easy to do; border officials across the globe are trained to maintain a poker face.

Their reactions came from my passport photo, taken in March 2002, when I was still a big boy. I weighed 265 pounds, wore a full goatee and had a shaved head. I also wore no glasses.

These days I'm 200 pounds and trim. I've regrown my lid, shaved off the goatee and I wore my glasses.

In short, I look different.

They looked at the passport, then at me.

At the passport. At me.

Passport. Me.

They snorted, chuckled and tossed it back under the wicket.

Before I travel anywhere else, I must get my passport updated.

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