In all honesty, in the grand scale of things this was something extremely minor and actually a bit funny, but since this was the 3rd time something similar related to customs and our luggage happened, I was wondering some others had similar experiences.
(Apologies for the long-winded story, I just typed it out as I remembered it. The other 2 experiences weren’t as funny as this one)
My best friend / boyfriend - let’s call him XY - and I recently went on a 7 day, 6 night city trip. We like to travel light so we had 1 piece of hand luggage for the two of us. We arrive on time, get to the checkpoint, and do the standard thing of shoes, bag, belongings in the tray to be scanned, and us through the security scanner.
As we went to retrieve our tray, the operators were still working on our luggage, they had opened the bag and they were apparently looking for something. Then the young (and rather cute) guy picked up our tray, looked at us (a bit oddly) and asked whether we would mind stepping over “there”, there being a small room to the side I hadn’t noticed.
Now something to know: XY is sometimes recognised because of what he does. Since this guy gave off gay vibes, I assumed he might want a selfie or something. But I didn’t understand why we couldn’t get our stuff first, put our shoes back on, etc.
But that wasn’t it. Turns out that he assumed we “had another bag hidden somewhere, maybe with drugs, and what if a child…”
So we stand there - still barefoot, because he had our shoes - listening to his Miss Marple-esque hypotheses, and still uncertain WHY we were singled out. We finally manage to get a word in, ask him as much, and he triumphantly says: “there are no socks or underwear. For a 7 day trip” (no idea how he knew).
And looked frightfully smug.
I looked at XY, he at me, we looked down at our bare toes, I shrugged, opened my button and lowered my zipper. XY, who gets incredibly miffed if he’s falsely accused of this, was less subtle, pulled open his buttons in one go and completely flopped out.
Cute customs lad looked from the visible top of my shaft to XY’s todger and back - lost for words. XY: “I - we - don’t wear - OWN - underwear.” And moi: “nor socks”. XY: “nor socks” (he was crimson by now)
He just looked back and forth another time, pushed the tray towards us, turned around and left. Without a word.
When we left that room and went on our way to our flight, I caught cute customs lad’s eye once more - he was still crimson - and winked.
(Apologies for the long-winded story, I just typed it out as I remembered it. The other 2 experiences weren’t as funny as this one)
My best friend / boyfriend - let’s call him XY - and I recently went on a 7 day, 6 night city trip. We like to travel light so we had 1 piece of hand luggage for the two of us. We arrive on time, get to the checkpoint, and do the standard thing of shoes, bag, belongings in the tray to be scanned, and us through the security scanner.
As we went to retrieve our tray, the operators were still working on our luggage, they had opened the bag and they were apparently looking for something. Then the young (and rather cute) guy picked up our tray, looked at us (a bit oddly) and asked whether we would mind stepping over “there”, there being a small room to the side I hadn’t noticed.
Now something to know: XY is sometimes recognised because of what he does. Since this guy gave off gay vibes, I assumed he might want a selfie or something. But I didn’t understand why we couldn’t get our stuff first, put our shoes back on, etc.
But that wasn’t it. Turns out that he assumed we “had another bag hidden somewhere, maybe with drugs, and what if a child…”
So we stand there - still barefoot, because he had our shoes - listening to his Miss Marple-esque hypotheses, and still uncertain WHY we were singled out. We finally manage to get a word in, ask him as much, and he triumphantly says: “there are no socks or underwear. For a 7 day trip” (no idea how he knew).
And looked frightfully smug.
I looked at XY, he at me, we looked down at our bare toes, I shrugged, opened my button and lowered my zipper. XY, who gets incredibly miffed if he’s falsely accused of this, was less subtle, pulled open his buttons in one go and completely flopped out.
Cute customs lad looked from the visible top of my shaft to XY’s todger and back - lost for words. XY: “I - we - don’t wear - OWN - underwear.” And moi: “nor socks”. XY: “nor socks” (he was crimson by now)
He just looked back and forth another time, pushed the tray towards us, turned around and left. Without a word.
When we left that room and went on our way to our flight, I caught cute customs lad’s eye once more - he was still crimson - and winked.