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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I went to an arts-specialty high school.Every couple of years we would go on a European tour as a choir. My first tour in 1994 started off with a delayed flight out of Toronto, so our teacher assigned each choir section a specific time to meet him in the restrooms for rehearsal, as they offered the best acoustics in the airport. As the teacher was male, the men rehearsed fully inside the restrooms. This must have greatly amused the occupants of the urinals and toilet stalls.
Being an alto, I had to stand in the ladies' room doorway with a dozen other teenage girls, with the teacher standing outside directing from the corridor. We got both smiles and funny looks from women entering the restroom. I recall that while we sang, one of the tenors sat on the floor in the corridor with his hat on the floor, hoping to get tips from passers-by that enjoyed our madrigals and songs from Latin masses.
Somebody must have been upset by us, though, as the soprano rehearsal was interrupted by security officers that didn't approve of our teacher looking into the ladies' room doorway!
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