So for Christmas I went to San Diego to visit my parents and so when they dropped me off at the airport I had a little over an hour so they decided to stay with me and we went to a little store right next to security… I like snow globes and I saw one that said San Diego and has buildings and well looked like a snow globe… my dad said he would buy it for me and would not take no for an answer so I asked the sales lady if I would be able to take the globe through security and she said and i quote “Oh yeah sure, it won’t be a problem.” I said are you sure…she said “oh yes…” so my dad bought the darn thing…
At this point I have about forty-five minutes so we decided its best I go so I don’t miss my flight… I hug and kiss the family and make my way onto security… thank God this was a late flight and there was no line… it was me myself and I… I go through the process of taking my shoes off and putting them in the little plastic containers and my cell and my wallet along with the shopping bag I had the globe in and two sweaters… as I walk through the guy says “We need a bag check” and I though ‘Oh Crap!!! This can’t be good…” keep in mind my parents had already started for the car… so this old guy looked to be 70 if not older came to the security bag place and took the container that had my cell, and the bag… my phone then started to ring, as if things couldn’t get worse…
Now when you miss a call with most phones, your phone will notify you…my phone peeps three times… when you miss a call… now I mentioned this guy is 70 right? the old man looks at me and says I am going to have to look in this bag is that okay… I said oh yes do you mind if I go get my shoes and other belongings… he says yes and I go grab my things and I turn around to go back to where the old man… and as the poor guy sticks his hand in the bag my phone begins to beep to let me know I had missed a call… The man did not know what to do… he pulled his hand out of the bag so fast I thought he was going to fall over… and then started to look around and check the machine around him thinking there was a bomb… I couldn’t help but laugh at this point and tell the man that it was my phone and that I had missed a call… he relaxed quickly and continued to search my bag…
After nearly dying of a heart attack he found the globe and said that I could not take it any further and that I would have to check it on one of my carry ons… I had already checked my bags and he said… “just have them find one of your bags and put the globe in it…” as easy as that sounds my bag was probably on the plane… Thank God my parents had not gone too far, I called my pops and he said but the lady said you could take it… at this point I wanted to kill her… that little..anyways… my poor pops came back and took the globe and flew it with him several days later when he came for a job interview…
Lessons learned…
1. Don’t trust the lady that works at the airport store… she just wants to make $20.
2. Put your phone on silent so you don’t give the security guard a heart attack and you get arrested for bomb threats.
3. Be thankful for your parents and all that they do for you… (that would have been a globe in the trash otherwise)
4. Don’t get mad at security… they are “trying” to do their jobs…even if it seems they don’t often do it very well…
5. Thank God for spell check.
