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The Awkward Engineer's Annotated Guide to Getting Through Airport Security


In my post a week or two ago called Things Not To Do At The Airport That I May Have Done I mentioned that it wasn’t the first time I’ve had an incident at the airport. So, I thought I’d put a little illustrated guide together to try to explain what it’s like traveling with an Awkward Engineer.The last time I flew, I had one of those newfangled smart phone boarding pass things. It’s kinda cool, right? You get a barcode in a picture message sent to your smartphone from the airline and that’s your ticket. I got in the ticket check/ ID check line, waited for my turn, and found out I was in the line WITHOUT THE BARCODE SCANNER. The security dude just kinda motions at the other line and doesn’t give me any further instruction. So I’m just kinda standing there, not really in the barcode scanner/normal ticket line, not really in the normal ticket line either, waiting awkwardly to be spotted. Five or six people went through before I figured out the ticket checker wasn’t going to notice me and I just cut the line, walked up, and scanned through. Of course, because my life is never easy enough, the next step is to go through the metal detector. So this is what a frequent traveler looks like going through security: And this is what I look like: It took me about 3 tries to get through the metal detector without it beeping. But I made it onto the right plane.







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