@Helga0 @Fred126 @Kimberly54 @Sandra126
Gosh Helga, maybe we should tell Australia Post about this breach in the road barrier!
I am however at a loss for words about that boar exerting it's influence over the car boot lid though. The insurance company would have rejected the claim because the insured deliberately added to the scope of the claim by his subsequent actions! ;-((
I have told the story before but, like possum jokes it stands repeating.
I have a daughter in Sydney and travel by plane to see her a few times a year.
I was fed up with having to prop my butt on the loose broken toilet seat in her Bondi apartment, and as luck would have it, I had a brand new 'soft close' jobbie just sitting here at home....left over from a previous bathroom renovation.
I told her on my next trip over I would bring the redundant new toilet seat with me.
As I walked to the airport security I put my case on the xray scanner conveyer and watched it disappear into 'the tunnel of doom'! The conveyer stopped, backed up, moved forward a couple of times and eventually my suitcase emerged through the plastic ribbon wall where it was promptly seized by one of the milling security staff. I was motioned over to the conveyor....me one side and this official on the other. He said, "may I have a look in your suitcase sir"....not so much in the form of a request, more in the form of "OPEN THE BLOODY F........ THING"!!! Anyway, he rifled through my clothes until he came to the toilet seat and at that point we just looked at each other! Waiting for a response I said to him...." I have very clean habits, I don't travel without it"! For a second he had this perplexed look on his face!
You see, these guys are programmed for certain responses to regular situations, and I could clearly see this guy was way out of his depth....he was confronted by an object and a statement his previous training would not have addressed in a million years. Gathering his composure he studied it for a minute or so, shrugged his shoulders and probably thought...'I can't see it bring down an aircraft' and allowed me on my way.
But I can just imagine this guy finishing his shift, heading off home to his partner and family, gathering them all around and saying....."I will give 50 bucks to the first one of you to guess what I found in a passengers luggage today.....boom, boom!
Cheers.....Rob