# My wife's going to get me arrested **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 13, 2016, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wifes-going-to-get-me-arrested/762731 "2016-08-13T23:39:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2016, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wifes-going-to-get-me-arrested/762731/41 "2016-08-22T14:55:37Z")
> [@Mama\_Zappa](#): > > You’re right to be concerned on a lot of fronts. Some years back, a board member passed away due to a seizure-related injury :(. Who was that? ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2016, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wifes-going-to-get-me-arrested/762731/42 "2016-08-22T20:42:45Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Who was that? Persephone: > **[Cristi Lamb (Persephone) R.I.P.](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=243208)** > > I’m Cristi Lamb’s husband, Tim. I don’t know most of you people, but I know that she has friends here that she loved dearly. I’m typing this here as this very page was left on the computer from where she left it… I came home last night at about... ---
**Author:** ![Disheavel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@Disheavel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disheavel)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2016, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wifes-going-to-get-me-arrested/762731/43 "2016-08-22T22:01:54Z")
Once during a snowstorm while traveling, I altered our plane tickets to not go home but rather straight to our next destination (California) where I knew we could figure out how to get home later, but this involved changing airlines, schedules, destinations, etc. Oh and I was traveling with a child whose name doesn’t match mine… So we got flagged for the full inspection and interrogation by seemingly everyone in the airport. This culminated in the TSA asking my son, “what is your name?” He replies, “Dstheven” (He was 3-4 and had some speech issues and one wouldn’t have known he said Steven unless they had it written in front of them.). She then asks, “Steven, do you have any other names?” “No, I not have any other names.” “Is there a name that sometimes goes with Steven?” And he says, “Well, sometimes my dad call me Nipper.” She started laughing histerically and sent us on our way. I had gotten shushed and glared at in trying to “translate” and rephrase questions so I was very relieved that his not knowing his last name didn’t strand us at the airport for several more hours. Ever since then, I’ve noticed that they (and especially at border crossings) really don’t care about the truth in the answers so much as the tone. Going to Canada just the other day, my kids got asked, “Did you have cheerios this morning? What kind of fruit did you have?” and on the return to the U.S. “What kind of candy and ice cream did your parents buy you on vacation?” ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2016, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wifes-going-to-get-me-arrested/762731/44 "2016-08-23T01:05:43Z")
> [@Disheavel](#): > > Once during a snowstorm while traveling, I altered our plane tickets to not go home but rather straight to our next destination (California) where I knew we could figure out how to get home later, but this involved changing airlines, schedules, destinations, etc. Oh and I was traveling with a child whose name doesn’t match mine… So we got flagged for the full inspection and interrogation by seemingly everyone in the airport. This culminated in the TSA asking my son, “what is your name?” He replies, “Dstheven” (He was 3-4 and had some speech issues and one wouldn’t have known he said Steven unless they had it written in front of them.). She then asks, “Steven, do you have any other names?” “No, I not have any other names.” “Is there a name that sometimes goes with Steven?” And he says, “Well, sometimes my dad call me Nipper.” She started laughing histerically and sent us on our way. I had gotten shushed and glared at in trying to “translate” and rephrase questions so I was very relieved that his not knowing his last name didn’t strand us at the airport for several more hours. My parents had friends who were snowbirds. Pack up the car like college students in the late fall & drive south for a few months & then reverse the process in the spring; obviously they were retired to be able to get away for a few months at a time. They were heading north but still in FL when their car caught fire. A trucker stopped & help them pull stuff out of the car. The car was totalled in the fire but he told them to go to WalMart & get some cheap luggage (it only needed to be used once) for their now-Plan B flight home. Let’s review: [ul] [li]One-way, walkup purchase airline tickets, [/li][li]Brand new, cheap luggage.[/li][/ul] Do you realize they grilling they got by security for fitting the pattern, to a T, of a drug courier? :smack: ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2016, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wifes-going-to-get-me-arrested/762731/45 "2016-08-23T15:22:16Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Did they charge you for that? No I’m in an HMO so there was no charge at all not even a co-pay. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wifes-going-to-get-me-arrested/762731.md?page=2)