Justadesperatewifeandmom
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The only airport story I have was from when I traveled alone at 17. Eastern wanted me to wear a lanyard with "Unaccompanied Minor" on it. I looked older than most of the attendants we saw coming off the planes!
Then the plane was overbooked. My dad took the "bribe" so I'd take another flight: $100 in cash, $200 voucher, and a pump to first class! The flight left 30 minutes after the original, but arrived 45 minutes before: only one stop on this flight as opposed to two.
I get on the plane, stewardess took the lanyard from me and shook her head. "Just don't think of ordering alcohol," was her only words to me LOL We get off the ground, I whip out the anthology I needed to read for my class, so I could do a report on five of the stories, and the stewardess comes to me, "And now I see that you must read, I'll keep an eye on you." She gave me a couple of cans of Dr. Pepper LOL
We get off in Tampa, she asked me, "How many did you read?"
I told her 6.
nice. I flew as an unaccompanied minor once, and the stewardesses checked on me an annoying amount times. I swear I had to take my walkman off every 5 minutes to confirm I was good. I was like 8 though, so I guess it was the nice thing to do.
LOL - I have a backpack that I use as my traveling carry-on (in case I have to hike through large airports and so I can take day trips if I get laid over somewhere). I went completely through TSA and actually onto the plane with a good sized folding knife, hung in plain sight on a strap of the back pack. I realized I had it when I was tucking my bag into the overhead. I walked right past the ticketing agents, the ticket checkers, through TSA (they apparently didn't even see it on the baggage scanner), past the boarding agents, past the flight crew. I think that because it was in plain sight, they just weren't registering it.
I spent a couple of hours in a Canadian detention center because I once drove across the border to Vancouver with a pistol in my suitcase and forgot all about it. I had to pay a fee for the undeclared weapon and forfeit the pistol, but other than that, nothing happened. Two ladies in the detention center with me were arrested for undeclared bed linens. What the hell? Canada is a weird place.
oops. so what is it like in a canadian detention center with hardened criminals like bed linen smugglers?