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.
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chthonic, Fri 3 Mar 2006, 10:09)
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Johannesburg AirportFlying to South Africa with 15 other 18-25 year olds for a charity 'fact finding' visit (actually was a weeks holiday with 3 hours taken to stage photos to prove to everyone in the UK we weren't there having fun 24-7... which we did)...
Anyhew - get to Heathrow and discover that there is a wide range of bars open. So we start what can only be described as the most contained pub-crawl in history - before boarding a 10hour flight where we will be served free alcohol. 14 Hours drinking does different things to different people - some (like me) just want to sleep it off, others get to the Immigration queue at Johannesburg Airport [staffed by the most muscular and scary looking women you've ever seen] and in a drunken slur, points to my Irish passport and shouts 'Have you declared the semtex in your bag yet Coops?'
Luckily scarey immigration woman on the desk just rolled her eyes and waved us through into the baggage hall (no doubt commenting to herself that Africa went to the dogs when the Europeans arrived), where I used my suitcase to beat some sense into certain members of our group.
TOP TIP: Don't go anywhere in a group where you're the only one with a non-UK passport.
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HSDriver was probably still at work on, Sat 4 Mar 2006, 19:06,
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