Given the delays and cancellations, I imagine anyone smuggling drugs would get so fed up that they'd probably use them in the departure lounge for a bit of relief
TBH it takes less than a couple of minutes. I just wanted to know why it was always me. I don't really mind. Feet apart, hands in the air, wear leggings you don't get scanned with the bat. Is there profiling going on? Pick a grey haired lady of a certain age to keep the statistics PC.
Last time I was on a plane, I got swabbed at Gibraltar airport. Hands and midriff for some reason! Being over 27, I wasn’t wearing a midriff baring top.
Ideally everyone would be checked … but can you imagine the furore?
Everybody is checked. That's what the modern body scanners are for. Last time flying from Birmingham I was asked what I had in my shirt pocket. I'd forgotten that I'd put a couple of paracetomol in there to take before flying and sitting for 4 hours plus. They didn't miss them.
I was stopped entering The Gambia with suspicious foil wrapped packages in my luggage. I think they were rather disappointed to find they were decaffeinated tea bags and Waitrose dairy toffees.
It reminds me of @WonkyWomble's tale of being searched at a music event ... the police were confused by the little bags of herbal leafy stuff they found in her pocket ... apparently they were not accustomed to folk taking their own Darjeeling tea bags to festivals .... 😵🙄🤣☕
My daughter has style 😎
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I'm getting curmudgeonly about the lack of aspirin. It's the most effective thing for my arthritic knees and OH uses it for his sinusitis - it can sometimes stop it before a migraine develops. I had a good stockpile but we're running out now and it's still very hard to find in standard dose - can get the small dose stuff for heart patients but even that is only in chemists, not the SM. Apparently it all comes from China.
Weird things are unavailable. Dried kidney beans is another one.
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Is there profiling going on? Pick a grey haired lady of a certain age to keep the statistics PC.
Everybody is checked. That's what the modern body scanners are for. Last time flying from Birmingham I was asked what I had in my shirt pocket. I'd forgotten that I'd put a couple of paracetomol in there to take before flying and sitting for 4 hours plus. They didn't miss them.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I think they were rather disappointed to find they were decaffeinated tea bags and Waitrose dairy toffees.
My daughter has style 😎
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Weird things are unavailable. Dried kidney beans is another one.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”