Home again, home again
Oct. 7th, 2003 07:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altarielBack now. Jetlagged. Going to watch The West Wing, then going back to bed.
My nail scissors were impounded on the way into the US - I would have been dangerous with them, no doubt. I restored a sense of empowerment by going into Wal-Mart and trying out the guns.
My nail scissors were impounded on the way into the US - I would have been dangerous with them, no doubt. I restored a sense of empowerment by going into Wal-Mart and trying out the guns.
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Date: 2003-10-07 06:42 pm (UTC)My nail scissors were impounded on the way into the US - I would have been dangerous with them, no doubt.
I had the same thing happen to me last year with a pair of nail scissors - I was going on a short business trip, and didn't check any bags, and had forgotten about the new restrictions. All I can say is that any airline passengers who would allow me (with my intimidating 5'2" build) to hijack their plane using nothing but a pair of small scissors as a "weapon" deserve their fate!
I restored a sense of empowerment by going into Wal-Mart and trying out the guns.
That's the spirit!
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Date: 2003-10-08 09:56 am (UTC)Ninety dollars and I could have taken an Altariel-sized rifle back to the hotel with me. Getting it back through customs would have been tricky, and owning it in the UK even trickier. Never mind, I'll go and buy some nail scissors later.
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Date: 2003-10-07 06:53 pm (UTC)There must be something about us vertically-challenged scholarly types that seem awfully menacing to x-ray-wielding airline security types.
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Date: 2003-10-08 08:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-07 07:09 pm (UTC)I had a pair of nail scissors confiscated when entering Sydney as a transit passenger. I was very cross, as much at myself for forgetting to put them in the suitcase as anything else. I tempered my wrath by checking out the hefty glass bottles in the duty-free, and plotting how to make them into daggers, a la the baddie in Snow Crash.
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Date: 2003-10-07 07:13 pm (UTC)Friend of mine entering the US was asked something like "have you any intention of overthrowing the government?" To which the only reasonable answer can be "sole purpose of visit".
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Date: 2003-10-07 07:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-08 07:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-07 07:31 pm (UTC)*snigger*
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Date: 2003-10-07 10:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-08 08:04 am (UTC)BTW, while I was on the flight, I actually had a chance to read the chapters of the fanfic book and make some notes on them. I appreciate this is ludicrously late - do you still want comments?
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Date: 2003-10-08 07:57 am (UTC)When I got in I had to ring my bank and scream blue murder at them for a spectacular piece of inefficiency. Jetlag really helped me focus there, until I found someone who would do exactly what I wanted, to get me off the phone.
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Date: 2003-10-07 07:52 pm (UTC)Pity about the confiscation, though, personally, I think you could be bloody scary even *without* them, if you put your mind to it. The mind and wicked wit are mightier than the nail scissors. That and the patented Altariel Death Stare. :-)
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Date: 2003-10-08 08:00 am (UTC)Glad you enjoyed 'Remembrance of the Daleks'... Have you been hooked on Who all over again? ;-D
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Date: 2003-10-08 09:44 pm (UTC)Have you been hooked on Who all over again?
I'll certainly want to investigate more of the McCoy era, if they were all as good as that. But for the moment, I have enough other problems with last week's TNG, DS9 and Alias purchases. Oh yes, and all of the other stuff that I haven't managed to watch yet...
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Date: 2003-10-08 01:42 am (UTC)(Where we met and didn't even realize it until I got home! Heehee!)
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Date: 2003-10-08 09:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-08 12:39 pm (UTC)Welcome home! Glad you had a good trip.
I restored a sense of empowerment by going into Wal-Mart and trying out the guns.
What with this and the death stare, I'm getting visions of you as The Terminator now. I may have to lie down quietly in a darkened room to recover.
I wonder what's going to happen to all those nail scissors and tweezers that are currently displayed in glass boxes at various airports?
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Date: 2003-10-08 12:43 pm (UTC)I suspect all the nail scissors and tweezers will be melted down to make bullets.