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“Ha! You must have had a rough time!” A cheerful British couple called out to me as I headed to the seating by the gate. “We saw you at the check-in desk and then everyone left apart from you!” I grinned, was about to say everything was fine, when two airline attendants appeared. “Sorry to interrupt. Could you come with us?” I KNOW MY RIGHTS! (I wanted to shout) I WILL NOT GO QUIETLY! (Spoiler: I did go quietly.) 4 comments
I was in limbo land. Having scanned my boarding pass to accompany the model to the plane door, I was then left to roam the empty hallway until boarding could begin. The wheelchair users went ahead, but I was allowed to board with the parents of young children. I found my “child” neatly strapped in. I noticed it had bagged the window seat. A lady came and sat down on my right, giving me and my model an askance look. Body parts. Full of human organs. She was sure of it. I could tell. I took the beef curry. The model didn’t get anything, since it had failed to keep its human ticket. We’d made it to Singapore. A bag scan was needed at the Singapore gate. My laptop slid through. The model slid through. And then came the case containing the asteroid sample. “What is this?” I took a deep breath. “It is… an asteroid sample.” I waited. My hand inched towards my laptop with hours of presentations on Hayabusa2. “Huh. OK.” The attendant turned to her colleague. “It’s an asteroid,” she said in a tone that implied they’d seen 72 others in the last week alone. Just a chip from outer space. Again. 🤨 |
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“This contains a spacecraft?”
I opened the case to show the cabin crew.
“WHOA! Is that the real spacecraft that went to space?!!”
I mean that WOULD be cool, but the real Hayabusa2 is 20 times the size, still in space and no way would I allow what was about the happen.
I handed the case to the cabin crew.
They wanted to strap the model into its seat before the main boarding. I accompanied them through the gate to the aeroplane door but then permitted the case to be squirrelled away.