You are just going to carry them back through American customs?
"I know American customs and where there are going to be friction points, okay?"
A few hours later he was dead - because of another old American custom.
It is an American custom established within the last 40 years.
Getting back, however, requires getting past American customs and immigration.
Strolling used to be an American custom, but it hasn't been for a long time.
Then he returned to the bridge to receive the American customs and immigration officials.
He is in a condition, a situation, for which there is no American custom or rule.
American medical custom is to change catheters every three days, infection or not.
Helping neighbors is an American custom that has become harder to honor.