I had my trip journal ready to tell them what I'd done in the last 10 years, but they just wanted to know about last month. That was easy. We stayed home.
The interesting thing was they certainly knew my address. They wanted to know how many people lived at this address and names, birthdates and my favorite two questions we now get. What gender were you at birth and what gender are you now!
Changing the subject but talking to another Government agency about a male relative she asked his identity. I gave her his name. She said no, how does he identify, and again I gave her his name. She meant is he now male, female, LGBTQ or ?? It went right over my head. I said he was born male and he's still male. When did these even become anyone's business?
If this survey was sent to me before Trump was disrespectful to Queen Elizabeth and wanted us to become the 51st state, my answers would have been much different. Before the "Elbows Up" campaign I would go to the US at least every ten days. We would go through the Nexus lane, have a nice lunch somewhere in the US, get gas at Costco in Bellingham and only buy US butter and other items at Costco that we can't get in Canada. US butter is much cheaper, wrapped in 1/4 lb packages and spreads much easier than Canadian butter. I'm still trying to find out why our butter is harder to spread. I'm hoping because it's better quality but I haven't been able to find out. I really miss Ivar's Clam Chowder!
