Airport Experiences

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So sitting in the Qantas lounge at Sydney airport waiting to fly to Tokyo, found a Bulmers tap hiding away in a corner..still have 5 hours of waiting till the flight..

So NS, what awesome/horrible airport experiences have you been through?
 
so you're just steady sippin?

go buy a 2 litre and empty it so you can fill it with beer before some staff realizes they have free beer out in the open.

I dont really have any crazy airport experiences.

one time i was in DC though and realized I had a bunch of tree stems in my pocket, and I had just walked by a cop with a k9.

another time when I was young I got to hit up the maple leaf lounge with my dad. ended up gettin some iced tea and mixing it with crown royale and was so scared my parents were gonna smell it on my breath haha
 
i like your thinking sir, cbf going down to duty free but i do have my backpack+bladder..may need to take full advantage of Qantas' ignorance.
 
Airports are the most interesting place to people watch. Also, look around. Wander the terminals. The last time I flew, I was walking around an empty terminal just talking on the phone. I happened to see an odd white thing sitting on the windowsill. It turns out it was an iPhone. Turned it on, had almost full battery. Went through the text messages and recent calls (no ICE), made a few calls, and found the owner's husband. Apparently she was aware she left it, called the airline which conducted a "thorough search" and failed. Lol, they didn't search at all. Got an address and mailed it back. Was just happy to help out, but a month or so later a $25 VISA gift card showed up sent to my return address. Very nice. :) Also played around on YouTube the entire time I was waiting for the flight on her iPhone lol.

Another time I was coming home from a climbing trip and had way too much stuff to make the checked baggage weight. I ended up taking my climbing rope and just putting it on my back, over my already stuffed backpack. That started a bunch of interesting conversations, including being asked if I was going to rappel out of the plane. Got talking about one guy's experiences climbing in Alaska back in the day.

Coming back from Africa I overheard some kids talking about skiing. Approached them with the line "You're the first Americans I have seen in over a month" and proceeded to have a great time talking about skiing, college, Africa, etc.

Lots more, but those come to mind right now.
 
Quality airport stories, i was in Tokyo last year just after the earthquake/tsunami/nuclear apocalypse, that was some crazy times everyone just bailing as fast as possible. Just saw Scribe (NZ Rapper), that was pretty cool.
 
...way to park city, all the parents got drunk. we played hacky sack with a lady that was missing her wedding
 
On my way home from Bolivia, beat as fuck after a long travel day. I land in Montreal and start talking to the customs officer, after like 3 questions I knew he was going to search me so I should stop lying. He then asks me if I brought tea back, I said yes. So I move on, get waved to the search room. Lady starts searching my bag and pulls out my big sack of coca leaves and starts freaking the fuck out, saying I could be making blow with it and shit and how a few years prior I would have been arrested and charged with some gnarly shit. I had to argue with her saying it was just for tea and chewing and that you need massive amounts to make coke. Anyways she wrote me up and probably put me on some wack list but other than that I got off scotch free.

I've also seen friends get in shit for trying to bring knives on the plane.

Other than that nothing craze. I do have like 8 flights in the next month though so maybe I'll have something new to post.
 
Singapore airport has a cinema... That was amazing when I was stuck there for a day.

Australia I got interrogated by a sniffer dog for having a banana in my bag.

Attempted to bring a Swiss army pen knife through airport security by a mistake when I was about 12, they took it off me and said nothing :).Got chased out of the airport in Dublin with my dad because they thought I was being trafficked.
 
Few years back i did my knee and had a brace on, traveling around the states with my family going from place to place every airport i went through i had trouble with the brace. Nearing the end of our trip we pass through an airport and someone says "we've got rednoses" no idea what it means but my whole family got taken aside and searched/questioned was pretty funny really.

The funniest one i have to say for me is when my grandma went through a check in, got pulled aside for a random drug test and didnt understand how serious airports are and casually said "Its all strapped to me!" luckily the people didnt understand her because of her Dutch accent haha fuck were we scared thought they were going to blow her head off

 
So a while back my whole family was going on vacation and we were going through airport security. We put our carry on bags through the x-ray and the guy pulls aside my sister (probably 16 at the time) and asks if she has a compass in her bag. She thought he was talking about a directional compass when actually he meant the kind for drawing circles, so she was confused and kept denying she had one. Eventually he searched her bag and pulled it out and she just said "ooooh you mean that compass...". I guess he thought that this 16 year old girl was trying to hijack a plane with a .5" point but luckily he just took it away and let us go without any more trouble
 
once i ended up forgetting my water bottle to take out ended up bringing it on that i brought from home and some sunscreen over the certain amount of ounces. Pretty pissed could have brough some booze or something
 
Once i showed up to my gate 3 min before is was supposed to close (13 min before departure time). and the cunt of a airline employee there wouldn't let me get on, even thought the ramp was still connected to the plane and the doors hadn't closed yet. so i had to sit in DIA for 7 hours to wait for the next flight.

i've also had my connecting flight leave 20 min early without me so I got stranded in Chicago for a night. Fuck you United!
 
got a bit inebriated in the heathrow BA eurotraveler lounge once. Made almost an entire day of a 90 minute flight.

Then also nearly spent 4 days sleeping in heathrow due 4 inches of snow last december.
 
i flew back and forth to college 5-6 times per year for 5 years so i have some funny stories.

coming back to school from winter break: i had spent the night before drinking and gnerally partying and my flight was at 6am, so i just never went to sleep. well i get to the airport(san jose) and decide that i dont want to be awake for the fight so i pop 1 and 1/2 Norcos. i remember going to get a breakfast burrito at a little restaurant in the terminal, and then i woke up in portland, directly nect to the gate, with about 20 of those little airplane pillows surrounding me. I look around and the gate lady was just looking at me with a shit eating grin and shaking here head. My drunk name at college was the blackout menace because i literally would do whatever i thought looked funny or like a good time...and apparently on the airplane i had stolen everyones pillows, and then proceeded to walk off the plane with them, and then pass out directly next to the gate. Barely made it to my next gate in time for the next flight. thank god for long layovers.

I got stuck in an airport overnight because of snow, and got hooked up with weed by a baggage guy who i asked to help me out. I thne proceeded to absolutely make a fool of myself on those conveyor belt paths they have on long straight aways. I just did some really baked parkour for like 4 hours at 1am.

But my main activity, was to see how far i could push the security. I just made sure i had nothing illegal on me, and would then try to walk through every door i could, "restricted" or not, would go through security multiple times each time with increasing amounts of stuff shoved in my pockets and pants etc.

My actual advice is to try and hit on as many girls as you can.
 
Before I became an american citizen I came here with my family as a kid to flee by war torn country that was an small offchute of uzbekistan. We stopped in europe on the way. Shortly after we left on our flight to the united states, the government of uzbekistan took control of my country.

When we landed in new york city, out visas were no longer valid. At the same time our country that we were citizens of no longer existed. We had to live in the airport for a few months before we could get anywhere. Were weren't allowed to leave the airport. IT sucked. Eventually we relocated to europe as refugees.
 
oh another time me and my two roomamtes coincidentally all booked the same flight to Seatac(then they go to hawaii, me to CA), so we drove to the airport together. Well i hadnt smoked much at all in the past few weeks due to schoolwork and such, so my tolerance was pretty low. Well we stopped at a club and picked up an 1/8th, which we then rolled into a blunt. but we also put a fat ass snake of hash in the blunt. we hotboxed the car and then 5 minutes later we were dropped off at the airport. HOLY GOD was i stoned. like incoherently, nother world stoned, as were my roomates. i proceed to walk directly into a glass window on the outside of the building becuase i thought it was a door(got some bad looks for that). we finally get our tickets and go through security, where the security gaurd decides to have some fun with us, and starts asking us the most random questions ever(do you prefer eggs over easy, or boiled? what two colors make green?), then jokes that he wont let one of my roomates on because he doesnt believe he is from hawaii(dude is 1/2 hawaiin 1/2 samoan). he is doing the whole "im joking, but seriously im not, im just fucking with you, but actually you cant go through". we were way too confused at this point. we end upgetting to our gate and sitting down and proceed to watch a solid hour of And1 mixtapes, mwanwhile they were calling our names because the plane was about to leave(we were the only ones left in the gate area and fit the names perfectly). all of a sudden i hits one of us that they had been calling our names for the last 5 minutes and we bust out laughing and proceed to board the plane where we had to walk all the way to the back of the plane throught he packed cabin, reekingg of MJ smoke, laughing and grinning uncontrollably the whole time.

I have also had to ask a ticket seller to help me out with the boarding pass kiosk because i was still so drunk from the night before that i couldnt read it.

basically, as long as you arent a danger to others(ie aggresssive, falling over) airlines dont care how fucked up you are.
 
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