"My expiring passport was the older variety — not readable by machines. The ticketing agent and the border agent had to laboriously decode the trilingual (Arabic, English, Urdu) categories to hunt for my date of birth or the expiration date. Eagerly, I would try and point them to the right pages. This digital intrusion into their domains was rarely met with a smile." Read Full here via Digg Top Stories http://www.chapatimystery.com/archives/homistan/passport_tales.html
