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Yeah. Happens to me all the time. I grew up around 4 or 5 languages. Even spoke some Swahili as a toddler. My pronunciation is almost always near-native, even if I know 10 words Only, I get too much credit for being from Norway, so not sure it's to my advantage to sound local.

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But then, we did bomb his country less than a decade before..

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Concerning the Serbian border guard? Yeah, virtually every Serb I know hates NATO...

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Of course, it is a rare case where the country getting bombed was actually committing the atrocities they were accused of. All of which is 0 excuse for bombing Belgrade, of course.

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Literally everyone was staring, and I didn't know why. Some skinhead shouted "terrorist!" at me. I fucking legged it back to the camp, where my stupidity finally came to light.

Jane Mercer

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The very stern lady at passport control when we transited through Iceland almost didn’t let us through, as I’d left the letter from the kids’ mom authorizing them to travel with just one parent in checked luggage.

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She talked me my youngest and grilled her about things to make sure I wasn’t pulling a parental abdication, omg she was traumatized a bit

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“I’ll let it slide THIS TIME, don’t forget in the future or the next official might not be so nice” *angrily stamps passports like something out of a movie*