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Posted on 06/01/2005 7:12:04 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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Cool! Hope the pics came out!
Did I tell you about the time I packed a 4" cast iron pan in checked luggage?
Did that cause the bag to exceed the weight limit?
I'm a random woman, so I never wear underwire when I fly (all... five trips I've taken in my life...) Tennis shoes, since you never know how far to walk until the connecting flight.
So... 9:45 and I'm still the only one here...
I'd like to see 'em! We had tons of wild turkeys around in Vermont...but I can't recall seeing any truly young ones. Dunno why!
I want a digital camera.
Always. Always. Always. ALWAYS!
And I usually get selected to be a random woman coming out of El Paso. Usually.
We don't have them here.... too wet maybe? No native turkeys or pheasant.
No. It just set off their metal detector thingie bigtime. I got the bag back wrapped with all kinds of tape. :)
I don't remember ever seeing them when I was little. Maybe once or twice. We saw bear...deer...foxes...grouse and pheasants...but I don't remember turkeys.
They've apparently come back with a vengeance, though. There are some roads where I pretty much ALWAYS encounter a bunch of 'em. What do you call a group of turkeys?
Turkey season is like half the year. I should learn to hunt 'em for when I go home, maybe. ;-) Mmm...turkey.
Have no desire to do the "processing", though.
My brother John is ALWAYS stopped wherever he goes. Dunno why. He's about six foot five, but about the most non-threatening looking guy I know (gosh I hope he's not lurkin...;-)
They never seem to suspect me. The fools.
I bought some TSA approved locks so that we can lock our luggage for the trip to Japan. TSA folks have a key to open the locks, but no one else should. The locks also have an indicator that tells you whether or not someone used the key on them. I got some funky colors to help identify our luggage on the carousel.
I like to provide a distraction so my ninja escort can sneak through more easily.
Heh...once before 9/11, I was coming back from Germany. I'd been in a hurry, so I stuffed the last few things I meant to bring in my coat pocket: guitar strings and one of those old style wind-up alarm clocks.
Wires and a clock thing. It didn't make the folks at the checking station very happy. ;-)
I think this is the family of turkeys that Clare and I saw earlier this week. They were crossing a street about 4 blocks from our house, and heading for an undeveloped area that is only about a two blocks out the back and through the woods. Mama stands about 30", and the babies are about a foot tall.
The lady waved the wand around. ~Beep~ "Uh, those would be my earrings. See my earrings?" ~Beep~ "Uh that would be the MIRACLE BRA. It's a MIRACLE don't you think??" She glared at me. ~BEEP~ "Uh, that would be the clasp on my MIRACLE BRA. What else would be there? Tell me! Really!" ~BEEP~ "Uh, that is a button. That is a button on my jeans. It holds fabric together and that's a frightening thing." I hitched up my shirt and pointed. "See? It's a scary button! Beep! Beep!"
El Paso is a small airport so this turned into a circus. She-who-needs-Ritalin also got to be a random woman and she was busting up laughing so hard she couldn't keep her arms out and in the air. Her super security agent wasn't amused either.
It's not like either of us are illegal aliens, or islamofascists. The only Spanish SWNR knows is "ree-leno" which she likes and orders all the time and "muy caliente" which she doesn't like because she burned her hands on the plate. We occasionally have interesting souveniers in our checked luggage but we're harmless dingbats.
Flying makes me irritable.
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