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The good save...
The team lead who I was working for yesterday came up and stood next to me as I was running the x-ray. There was nothing going through, so we chatted a bit, I don't recall what about, but suddenly he said, "Did you know your eye drifts? It just sort of drifted to one side as you were talking."
I know my smile just switched off, I abruptly put my whole attention back to the screen. I had an excuse, something was coming through. But I explained, "I'm very self-conscious about it. I got teased a lot growing up. In high school people would say I was putting the evil eye on them."
He said, "Sorry. I had never noticed before, actually. So, what happens when you're getting two different pictures at the same time? That must be confusing."
That actually helped - changing to a factual spin allows me to switch to teacher mode, making it less embarassing. And I appreciate people who think about effects and want to learn more. I informed him that I've had this condition since I was so young that I really don't usually notice the two different images - my mind automatically screens out the one I don't want.
So he joked that was useful, as I could keep an eye on him and one on the screen.
That was okay, I was feeling all cool with it all, when suddenly another screener, who was standing about 5 feet away, called accross the checkpoint, "What did you just say to Doe to make her blush like that??"
My lead responded, "I told her she has pretty eyes!" and said more quietly to me, "And you do."
I said, "Thanks," and I meant it from the heart. Not so much for the compliment, but for the fact he'd just saved me from having to explain any of that to her, and bringing it back up again. I'm clumsy at covering up, and certainly would have said something that would have made the situation worse, like "It's not something appropriate to be yelling accross the Checkpoint." Little white lies are still sometimes a good thing.:)
And the foot in the mouth...
A woman about 3'6" tall came through the Checkpoint with a baby on her shoulder. A screener had to hand-inspect the baby's carry seat because it was too big to fit through the x-ray machine. As she was bringing the carry-seat over to the mom, the screener said, "Is this for the munchkin?"
We all held our breaths....
The vertically-challenged woman responded, "Yes!" very perkily, and then switched her tone and said, "No, it's for _him_."
After she left we laughed - I literally laughed so hard I had tears in my eyes, and someone (probably Jimdes, though I'm not sure) said, "You're lucky you didn't have _two_ feet in your mouth!"
The team lead who I was working for yesterday came up and stood next to me as I was running the x-ray. There was nothing going through, so we chatted a bit, I don't recall what about, but suddenly he said, "Did you know your eye drifts? It just sort of drifted to one side as you were talking."
I know my smile just switched off, I abruptly put my whole attention back to the screen. I had an excuse, something was coming through. But I explained, "I'm very self-conscious about it. I got teased a lot growing up. In high school people would say I was putting the evil eye on them."
He said, "Sorry. I had never noticed before, actually. So, what happens when you're getting two different pictures at the same time? That must be confusing."
That actually helped - changing to a factual spin allows me to switch to teacher mode, making it less embarassing. And I appreciate people who think about effects and want to learn more. I informed him that I've had this condition since I was so young that I really don't usually notice the two different images - my mind automatically screens out the one I don't want.
So he joked that was useful, as I could keep an eye on him and one on the screen.
That was okay, I was feeling all cool with it all, when suddenly another screener, who was standing about 5 feet away, called accross the checkpoint, "What did you just say to Doe to make her blush like that??"
My lead responded, "I told her she has pretty eyes!" and said more quietly to me, "And you do."
I said, "Thanks," and I meant it from the heart. Not so much for the compliment, but for the fact he'd just saved me from having to explain any of that to her, and bringing it back up again. I'm clumsy at covering up, and certainly would have said something that would have made the situation worse, like "It's not something appropriate to be yelling accross the Checkpoint." Little white lies are still sometimes a good thing.:)
And the foot in the mouth...
A woman about 3'6" tall came through the Checkpoint with a baby on her shoulder. A screener had to hand-inspect the baby's carry seat because it was too big to fit through the x-ray machine. As she was bringing the carry-seat over to the mom, the screener said, "Is this for the munchkin?"
We all held our breaths....
The vertically-challenged woman responded, "Yes!" very perkily, and then switched her tone and said, "No, it's for _him_."
After she left we laughed - I literally laughed so hard I had tears in my eyes, and someone (probably Jimdes, though I'm not sure) said, "You're lucky you didn't have _two_ feet in your mouth!"