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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BluejackingI was in Brussels at some crap meeting, and got back to the airport with several hours to kill. So I went upstairs to the food court and had a bite to eat. Still with quite a while left before my flight, I wandered along to the bar area where I could sit and watch the planes. I soon turned to Bluejacking......
Well, it so happens that one of the contacts picked up on my phone was a laptop computer named "Simon Barnes". I looked around and sure enough, several rows away was a balding gentleman tapping away on his laptop. So I typed in the message "Hey Simon, ya baldy git!" or something similar, and pressed send. Job done.
About a year later I was reading a copy of the Times, and opened the sports pages to find the face of none other than Simon Barnes staring out at me - turns out he's a well known Times columnist!
I wish I'd known at the time then I could have Bluejacked him with something more relevant. But he is a bit bald.
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K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 7 Mar 2006, 9:06,
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