Who was that?
Persephone:
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?”
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:
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[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:
No I’m in an HMO so there was no charge at all not even a co-pay.