[Magdalen] groaner

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

I was between flights at a European airport. I don't recall where, and it
really doesn't matter.  Anyway, I had not been expecting to have to go
through the checkpoint again, so I had not given it much thought. I had a
bottle of water in my rucksack.  They pulled me out of line, and sent me to
a lady who carefully removed things from my  bag until she uncovered the
bottle. No. Can't have that.
I took the bottle, took the cap off, turned it upside down (in my mouth.
I'm not a philistine) and chug-a-lugged (drank) the contents.
She sort of looked at me for a moment, obviously thought, "Well, I guess
that will work too," and sent me on my way.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 4:14 PM, Simon Kershaw <simon at kershaw.org.uk> wrote:

> A couple of years ago I flew from the Uk to Copenhagen for business. On
> the way home I got stopped at security. In the pocket of my coat was a
> Leatherman knife. The very nice Danish security looked me up and down and
> said, "You don't want to lose this do you? Put it in your hand luggage, go
> back to check-in, go to the head of the queue and tell them security sent
> you, and check it in; then come back here to the head of the queue, tell
> them security sent you." So I did. That's what you call common sense, I
> guess. And lots of courtesy.
>
> But I had, of course, travelled all the way out to Copenhagen, through
> security at Stansted Airport, without the knife being noticed at all.
>
> On previous trips I had always very carefully taken it out of my coat
> pocket and stuck it in my checked-in case. Just this once I had forgotten.
>
> simon
>
> --
> Simon Kershaw
> simon at kershaw.org.uk
> Saint Ives, Cambridgeshire
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On 25 Mar 2017, at 16:23, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
> oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I was bringing my mother-in-law back east to join a retirement community,
> > and we flew from Tucson to Pittsburgh. At some point afterwards, Helen
> was
> > searching her purse and came up with a little pen knife none of us had
> ever
> > seen before. "Now how did that get in there?" she wondered. After a while
> > it hit me that someone knew he was going to "get into trouble," and to
> > avoid that just dropped the knife into someone else's pocket, no doubt
> > giggling at the prospect of seeing an older lady wrestled to the ground
> by
> > TSA goons.
> >
> > They never caught it, obviously.
> >
> > Inspires confidence in our security personnel.
>
>