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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Terror in the skiesA few years back I'd taken a wee sojourn in British Colombia to escape the evils of the Uk and generally wander around & look at things, slide down mountains on skis, that kind of thing. A great time was had by the lord & i wasn't looking forward to returning home as home sucks.
everything about the check in & vancouver airport was just spiffy. until i get called to my gate. which has a tv wall showing CNN on it. this is happening a mere 3 months after 9/11 so everyone is a touch jittery. CNN is running a constant barrage of 'terror in the skies' with terrible rumours of nasty people wanting to blow our large aluminium tubes up & kill us all. our flight was delayed by 4 hours. most of which was spent by me staring at the tv wall, slowly getting more & more scared.
we get in. we don't die. we get to heathrow. we have to circle around heathrow for an hour. we finally land but are told that due to a security alert we can't leave the runway. we sit on the runway for about ninety minutes, with fucking TANKS rolling all around us. was worrying.
eventually we were let off & thankfully i have continued not to die. but it was the day that the police thought nasty sorts were going to attack planes at heathrow with surface to air missiles, so you can see why they were twitchy. it just wasn't nice after an 11 hour flight + delays. was worried, i tell you.
(, Wed 8 Mar 2006, 15:00, Reply)
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