Airport StoriesBack when I was a moody teenager I took a cheap flight that involved changing planes and having to go through security again. My bags were pre-checked so, when I set off the metal detector, I honestly said to the security guy that I had no idea what had set it off.
Until, that is, he searched me and found the metal knife and fork stamped "KLM" I'd nicked off the previous flight.
Tell us your best airport stories.
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chthonic, Fri 3 Mar 2006, 10:09)
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Not really an airport...When I was young and foolish (a couple of years ago) I decided to go skydiving. What better way to get over my fear of heights, I thought to myself, than floating down from a great height.
Well, the plane ride up was scarier than the jump itself. The plane had electrical tape all over it holding panels on etc, and they didn't have a proper door - just a rolled up piece of plastic loosely tied at the sides. Now this door was the real problem, because the plane floor was on a steep angle as they went up and up forever, and I found myself continually slipping down towards the door. As it was a tandem jump I didn't have a parachute on, and I wasn't clipped in for the ride up. By the time we got to jumping height, I was more than happy to clip in and jump out. I now wonder if they set it up like that on purpose.
Oh, so this question is meant to be airports rather then airplanes then. Ok, same day, after landing, I was in the little shitty airport area, and decided to make small talk with the guy I'd been strapped to. So I ask when the last time was that he'd had to use his emergency chute. Last jump before this one he said. Then I remembered that while I was getting kitted out lots of people outside had stopped at one point, looked up and oohed and ahhed. Glad I didn't know that before I jumped.
(, Fri 3 Mar 2006, 11:53, Reply)
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