#986 – Socked

Posted on March 23, 2010 at 12:00 am by Chris

I sold most of the books at the most recent show I went to. The books I had left would all fit inside my carryon bag. There was a little bit of space at one end so I filled that with two cellphone chargers, a camera battery charger, an ipod and headphones. When security at the airport put by bag through the x-ray a second time… really slowly… I figured this probably wasn’t the best idea. When they started unpacking it and swabbing for explosive residue I realized what the x-ray must have looked like with a thick solid rectangle at one end and a jumbled mess of electronics and wires at the other.