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[Valkyrie]

He's off to Germany for work. I've just been mailed from the airport that OH misread the guidelines and had his shaving gel and deodorant confiscated. So he will be a smelly Englander with the designer stubble. Then he forgot to empty his car keys in the tray and had a body search which apparently was very "intimate".

I have mailed back asking if the search included body cavities and did any one take photo's. I haven't heard any more, I suppose he is giving me the contempt I deserve. Oh to have been a fly on that wall.

[chickencam]

Poor man, but all the same.

[Guest]

oooooh thats rough for setting off the machine.

 

Mum always sets it off cos of her knee!

 

Then she upset US immigration as her fingerprints are useless due to cirriousis (sp!) which has destroyed the ends of her fingers (mine are better but my thumbs are gone!). This time round she actually couldnt' satisfy the "drone" and got taken out back to see the supervisor - who also gave up and decided that she didn't look too dodgy so they would let her in.

[Valkyrie]

Ooh Pengy - your poor mum! When we went through immigration the guy was so happy to see us after a long session of Hispanic people - most of which were single males and marched off to the return flights - he almost hugged us!

Coming home from Canada (we went to Calgary first and then Toronto) DS was held up after setting off the machine - OH was so impatient and was racing off to the next section while I tried to get him to wait for our poor boy, who was worried we might leave him behind. Turned out that DS had a Sheriff's badge on underneath his sweatshirt. They laughed and sent him through!

[Valkyrie]

Well he's arrived:

"Arrived safely

 

Great flight and service for a budget airline.

 

Goodnight"

 

If anyone is interested in trips to Germany it is airberlin and he went from Stanstead.

[Egluntyne]

Good to hear that he has arrived safely.

[redhotchick]

Your poor OH! Glad to hear he arrived safely!

[Paola]

Poor OH, not fun

[Redwing]

Well he's arrived:

"Arrived safely

 

Great flight and service for a budget airline.

 

Goodnight"

 

If anyone is interested in trips to Germany it is airberlin and he went from Stanstead.

 

Awww bless. A typical man message full of love and beautifully worded sentiments

 

My OH always gets searched, we have NEVER been on a plane without it happening and now add half an hour when planning journeys to allow for searches, I think he just has one of those faces!

[PapaJuliet]

Coming back from Munich once, I went through security to the gates in plenty of time and waited until nearer my take off time. Only to realise I needed gate (e.g.) 35 and there were only gates 1-29 in "this" area.

 

When I asked, I found I had to go back out through arrivals, along the corridor, back through a different security to a different waiting area.

 

By the time I got to the new security check I was getting slightly short of time. Plus it was a work trip so I had bag, laptop etc. So I was also, maybe a bit hot and ratty by this stage.

 

I think it was also my last trip to Munich so I was spending all the loose change and I'd bought various varieties of "Milka" chocolate, including a "cow" variety with splotches of milk and white chocolate.

 

Anyway, I got to security and they said check your pockets... take your coat off... take your computer out of its bag and turn it on... do this... do that... before I'd even had a chance to do the first So I was going yes... yes... YES... YES I KNOW!!! then they started disecting my bag and "oh look, cow chocolate"

 

PJ

[PapaJuliet]

I could tell dozens of stories of my trips to Munich...

 

Like the pair of earrings which would set off the metal detectors at Lufthansa check-in in Munich... and nowhere else that I have found yet.

 

Like the time we were bringing an air compressor back with us and discussing on the way to the airport how to describe it ("It's for blowing up... whoops maybe not")

 

Like the first time we went (5 of us from work, me (female) and 4 male colleagues) and (to cut a very long story short) the hotel we had booked had "no record of our booking" so we ended up in a different hotel (which the first hotel had arranged for us) at 2 in the morning with the hotel manager saying yes I've got 2 double rooms and one single room. LOL (if I hadn't been so tired)... I got the single room.

 

PJ

[Valkyrie]

Some funny stories there peeps.

 

When a friend and I went to Jersey many light years ago, our flight home wasn't till later in the day so we went to the market where we had discovered some wonderful Danish pastries. So after we purchased a large bagful for the return journey, they were placed in the top of my bag - imagine the Customs fellow diving in . . . yes he got sticky fingers and we were rightly embarrassed. Needless to say we did not eat the pastries at the top of the bag after that. He licked his fingers and said "ooh, nice", so we had to tell him our sorry tale of food obsession!

 

Redwing wrote:

Awww bless. A typical man message full of love and beautifully worded sentiments

 

You should have heard his proposal - so memorable that I almost forget how it went:

"I think we should make a go of it, don't you?" My answer was "Go of what?" Now at that time we did a lot of walking - I thought he meant the Pennine Way.

 

Now you can understand me when I said if I got any romantic poetry like Ian writes, I would suspect him of being guilty of something.

[Geoid]

s shaving gel and deodorant confiscated. So he will be a smelly Englander with the designer stubble.

Germany does sell these things...

Edited January 17, 2009 by Guest

[Valkyrie]

Ah, but he would have been smelly on arrival after being cooped up in that plane with close seating arrangements - even if he did have a bath in Lynx before he left. He probably would have done his shopping at the airport before going on to their hotel - which he definitely didn't want to do. All because he wanted to have only one bag to carry for a quick escape the other end (his seat was #1). I don't know where his friend's seat was - probably right at the back! OH always likes to have military style plans - or should I say Scout - which must be strictly followed, so being a bit rebellious I just love it when he gets scuppered!