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Message-ID: <1f66ii6.mn78y8wnqan8N%jwgh@earthlink.net> Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology Subject: more airport hijinx From: "Jacob W. Haller" <jwgh at earthlink.net> Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 00:05:44 -0500
I flew back to Providence tonight (from Baltimore via Philadelphia).
I was chosen for a random search again, along with about a dozen other people on my flight; there was a decent-sized line to be searched at the embarkation point or whatever it's called.
One of the guys in front of me was reeely obnoxious. Unfortunately my tired brane cannot remember exactly what he said, but he was kind of boisterous. Airport security reacted by confiscating all of his pens, which left him momentarily speechless, but then he rallied and told them to go ahead and take his pens.
Both of my carry-on bags were filled with dirty laundry. (Actually one had clean-but-rumpled laundry in it, but the difference was not totally clear.) The person searching my bags wasn't that thorough, which was as well, as it was hard enough fitting it all in my luggage in the first place. She did turn on and off my cell phone. Also, when she found my digital camera, she asked me to demonstrate that it worked. The result shows what a good mood I was in:
I was actually a little worried that my little trick of taking my own picture to demonstrate that my camera worked might get me into trouble, but in fact she thought it was pretty funny and asked me if it worked with a computer or something. I told her it did.
There was something else, but I forget what. I guess I'll have to hook myself up to the Device of a Thousand Dreams again!
-jwgh
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