and they started harassing those of us who were picking pears at montague and what today is 101 and montagueso because i had this reaction to that, having been an immigrant child, i asked my partner working the same tree if he would -- when they would get to our tree, we'll pretend that he didn't -- that i didn't speak spanish. or rather that i didn't speak english. and so we kind of played with it. the agents asked for our green card, and when they came to me, by that point they had harassed enough people. so i pretended i didn't speak english. and this other guy was trying to do a degree of interpretation for translating for me. and finally when they asked for my green card, i said i had one, and it was my american express card. you know, since then, i have read several incidents of that. but i didn't copy that from anybody. that was -- i don't know if it was original. it was original for me. and the agent wasn't pleased, but i proceeded to tell him why it wasn't -- it wasn't fair, it wasn't american to do what he was doing. >> and you don't leave home without it. ladies and gentlemen, it'