If you don’t follow James Rebanks, you should. The guy writes about his life as a shepherd in the Lake District of England. It sounds boring, but his tweets and books are remarkable.
So anywho, he was flying into Chicago yesterday, en route to Des Moines (Iowa), and this happened:
U.S. Passport checking guy…
âÂÂWhat do you do?âÂÂ
âÂÂIâÂÂm a writerâÂÂ
âÂÂYou havenâÂÂt come to write bad stuff about our president have you?âÂÂLong silence whilst I worked out if he was actually serious
Stony official stare from him until I said
âÂÂNoâÂÂ
Then waved in to USA pic.twitter.com/BBgx4V6fbn
— Herdwick Shepherd (@herdyshepherd1) January 19, 2018
Now of course, he’s being harassed on Twitter by Trump supporters who claim it didn’t happen. This guy is straight up legit. As if someone real and grounded enough to write this book would make up something like this.
To the insane people now telling me IâÂÂm a liar and itâÂÂs a good thing to hassle writers…
F off you morons
ItâÂÂs basically the first rule of America pic.twitter.com/9Rt33qSJ4t— Herdwick Shepherd (@herdyshepherd1) January 19, 2018
Here’s a sample of the kind of thing Rebanks writes:
Just remembered I have form on this… https://t.co/ueN13ZWXgf
— Herdwick Shepherd (@herdyshepherd1) January 19, 2018
and here’s why following him on Twitter is an absolute joy:
Wet and cold pic.twitter.com/yaADWQ2LhF
— Herdwick Shepherd (@herdyshepherd1) December 13, 2017
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