True story
So I was going through airport security today with the shinbone of a cow in my bag. As the bag went through the x-ray machine, the Homeland Security dude did a double take.
HS: Sir, is this your bag?
Me: Yup.
HS: What's in it?
Me: A cow bone.
HS: What is that, like a vase or something?
Me: No, it's literally the bone of a cow.
HS: (Face goes blank. Pauses for two seconds. Starts to walk my bag to the bag-search crew. Three steps in, pauses again, laughs, turns back to me.) Okay, you can have it.
Me: Thanks!
HS: (Under his breath, as I'm walking away.) "Literally the bone of a cow." (Chuckles.)
HS: Sir, is this your bag?
Me: Yup.
HS: What's in it?
Me: A cow bone.
HS: What is that, like a vase or something?
Me: No, it's literally the bone of a cow.
HS: (Face goes blank. Pauses for two seconds. Starts to walk my bag to the bag-search crew. Three steps in, pauses again, laughs, turns back to me.) Okay, you can have it.
Me: Thanks!
HS: (Under his breath, as I'm walking away.) "Literally the bone of a cow." (Chuckles.)
Labels: Good Yarns, Nerdosity, Travels
posted by Dr. Vector at 3:44 PM
5 Comments:
Dr V ... June 2007...great winning 'godhead' design for zoo t-shirt - I'd like to use it on a flier for a quarterly newsletter, with your permission.
Hokay?
Glad you liked it. I would like to know more about the newsletter and who it's for before I give permission. Please email me at mathew.wedel@gmail.com.
It's always fun going through the airport. I never know if it's the fossils, calipers, or "a suspicious amount of electronics, more than a normal person would carry..." that is going to cause them concern.
Y'know! What'd he think it was?! o_O
BTW- Nice blog, Doc!! ;)
My brother collects cranes. I once sent him a cow crane via airfreight... you should have seen the face of the lady at the desk when she got the answer to "what's in that box ?" hehehe !
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