Do not try this at North American/European/Middle Eastern/Asian/Australian/South American airports

Posted in Trippin': A Travelogue on March 27, 2007 | Permalink | Comments (3)

Airline check-in guy: "Did anyone else pack your belongings?"

Sister and I: "No."

Airport guy: "Do you have any explosives in your luggage?" (Although I have to say I was worried about my sister's potent hairspray, because I'm rather sure it's manufactured in Benoni. However, I wasn't going to tell Airline guy that.)

Sister and I: "No."

Airport guy: "Do you have anything sharp on you?"

Me: "No... well, except (and at this Airline guy looks a little startled, and then almost gleeful and I can see his arm visibly twitching to press some sort of panic button under the counter)... for my wit."

Sister: "And my tongue."

Luckily Airline guy had a sense of humour, otherwise we probably would have been promptly thrown in prison for life without formalities like court hearings.

P.S. No, I haven't been anywhere. This incident happened more than a year ago at Cape Town International Airport. My sister and I were on our way to Johannesburg to attend our dad's birthday party. So this is just the normal timely journalism that you've come to expect from me, you demanding beasts!

P.P.S. Today is my personal web goddess Emily's birthday. Go wish her, I beseech you!

3 Comments

Don said:

Hehe. Brave chicks!

March 28, 2007 9:45 AM

miked said:

wow, you two have got balls... errr ovaries! lol

March 28, 2007 7:28 PM

SilverSabre said:

Hey :)

I have two tickets to the Jazz Fest...one of which has your name on it...So if u arent already going drop me a line ASAP!!

(if u are already going drop me a line anyway so i can find another jazz lover to fill the spot, altho that will be hard :P)

March 29, 2007 12:40 PM

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