Another fine border experience

NOT. Our Shanghai to Vancouver flight arrived late by over an hour. Thought we would still have plenty of time doing the US transfer. But the US transfer was so horrible! Must be the new policy of welcoming visitors; and this country was complaining about China's ill treatment of visa application. For the entire US transfer from the Vancouver International, there was ONLY one guy working! He had to process visitors from two sides! One person. I felt sorry for that person. He called and called from his radio. He was a one-man show. But very friendly and tried to lightened the situation. The transfer line-up was filled all the way up to the transfer desk at the Canadian arrivals. And the Vancouver airport helpers kept calling and calling, no response from the US. So, we had about 10 minutes to get to our Seattle flight. Running with flip flops! After an eternity of waiting at immigration then the security check, we ran like mad down this corridor for all the AC short haul US destinations. Right, another 15 minutes walk, but we ran! Made it! But then, all passengers who were trying to board the Seattle flight found no plane at the gate. Oppps... Wrong place. "Sorry folks, follow me". Some passengers actually boarded the wrong flight to some other US destination.