BCL
Engineer
So I'm taking the in laws to the airport. I drop them off at the curb. My kid is alseep in the back seat. For reasons I won't go into, my wife gets a gate pass to accompany them to the gate. The flight is delayed, so my wife then is ready to leave rather than wait. In the meantime I'm waiting with our kid at the park and wait lot when our kid wakes up and "I gotta pee!" So I find paid parking and we go inside the terminal to find the bathroom.
I find a bathroom near the secure area exit when I see my mother in law. Then I see my wife. Turns out that she chased down my wife trying to hand her some cash for dinner while my wife wants to avoid her. However, she went past the "no reentry" sign. The police then are around her and she's ticked off that she can't get back into the secure area.
At that point we talk about all of us going inside together and we ask for more gate passes. One gets printed up then one for our kid. We have a bunch of IDs in front of the agent and we have the passes. So we get to the security line and I see that one gate pass was written in my mother in law's name. My wife can be kind of pushy and asks if I can get in anyways. I more or less give up and I'm ready to head back to the car.
Then for whatever reason I see there's no line and I bring the gate pass to the same agent and show her the pass has my MIL's name as the escort and the passenger. So she then prints up a new one in my name.
Now I'm in line emptying my pockets, taking off my shoes and the taking off my jacket. I take out everything but forgot one thing after going through the body scan machine. I had a tiny Swiss Army knife. So they tell me it either gets tossed or I can put it in my car and come back. At that point I don't think I get to the gate in time and just give up.
So that was plenty of excitement for one day. And it makes me thankful that none of this happens when I take the train.
I find a bathroom near the secure area exit when I see my mother in law. Then I see my wife. Turns out that she chased down my wife trying to hand her some cash for dinner while my wife wants to avoid her. However, she went past the "no reentry" sign. The police then are around her and she's ticked off that she can't get back into the secure area.
At that point we talk about all of us going inside together and we ask for more gate passes. One gets printed up then one for our kid. We have a bunch of IDs in front of the agent and we have the passes. So we get to the security line and I see that one gate pass was written in my mother in law's name. My wife can be kind of pushy and asks if I can get in anyways. I more or less give up and I'm ready to head back to the car.
Then for whatever reason I see there's no line and I bring the gate pass to the same agent and show her the pass has my MIL's name as the escort and the passenger. So she then prints up a new one in my name.
Now I'm in line emptying my pockets, taking off my shoes and the taking off my jacket. I take out everything but forgot one thing after going through the body scan machine. I had a tiny Swiss Army knife. So they tell me it either gets tossed or I can put it in my car and come back. At that point I don't think I get to the gate in time and just give up.
So that was plenty of excitement for one day. And it makes me thankful that none of this happens when I take the train.