While going through airport security, the lady operating the machine flags my carry on. It had been smooth sailing up to that point. I check-in online, I got my stickers for my bags at the front and through TSA screening and off I was to my gate. Until my bag doesn’t come out the other end of the machine and I look at the operator scrutinizing the items in there. She doesn’t know what she’s seeing and I’m standing there thinking [in my near bare feet] was I supposed to take all my electronic gadgetry out and put it with my laptop? It’s been awhile since I traveled by air.

So the fellow that had asked me about liquids in my carry on is now taking my bag to the end of the way to take a looksie. He pulls out my power adapter for my laptop, my mouse, then moves to the other compartment where my Zen is pulled out, then the mini speaker I have for it, ear buds, change purse, wallet, my travel usb adapter kit, SD card to flashdrive gazmo, flashdrives, portable usb hard drive [I'm still crushing on that!] and my glasses case. The writing tools and papers were left alone. Then he rifles through the front most compartment for the item said operator didn’t know what it was.

‘I have to tell you this is the geekiest bag I have seen today’

Turns out it was my flash drives, the ones I keep in my glasses case…that way I don’t lose track of them. One of them is the retractable kind, so mebbe it looks weird on the screen. Be that as it may, I gave a man a story. And I walked away thinking it was a good thing I didn’t have any unread comic trades that I could have taken to read.