Turned up for a job interview once in Victoria,
a stone's throw away from Buck House and therefore in an area that the Plod take very seriously. The office had metal detectors in the lobby and everything. When putting my briefcase through the scanner I'd forgotten that I'd been to a garden party the night before and inadvertently left with a metal kitchen knife in my pocket, which I'd transferred to my briefcase for safe-keeping.

The private security firm and HM's finest took a dim view of the fact that I was trying to enter a government building with a knife on my person. After some haggling they were persuaded to let me in after all and to confiscate the knife and not give it back.

Wouldn't have gone down the same way these days.
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Tue 8 Sep 2015, 15:06, 3 replies)

I once left a garden party having inadvertently put an ICBM
in my pocket. I transferred it to my briefcase but then found it difficult to get into Finlandia Hall in order to sign the The Helsinki Accords on behalf of the UK.

Wouldn't have gone down the same way these days.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Tue 8 Sep 2015, 16:52, closed)

Top-class pisstaking here.
If this continues, QOTW might actually not be dead after all.
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Tue 8 Sep 2015, 16:56, closed)