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Eor is sick and slept badly last night, so he headed for bed about 45 minutes ago. I wanted a hot bath after today - we finally got the sump pump we've been preparing for, and all the pipes and electric seem to be connected perfectly, yay! :) Now he seems to be sleeping peacefully. I know he thinks he never sleeps well until I get to bed, but I don't want to disturb him by climbing in, right now, and I'm actually feeling more awake than I have all day. Sometimes it seems like the instant the sun goes down my energy level goes up. :P
I have to tell you all about the nastiest bag I think I've seen yet, in seven years of inspecting people's bags. One of the airports in DC sent it here, I have no idea why. Perhaps they just had no idea what to do with it. So, no passenger with it, and it must have been sent out onto the baggage carousel and sat there for a while because they decided to rescreen it. One of my coworkers ended up having to open it, and now everyone who even looked at it seems to think they might come down with some rare tropical disease.
There were several bricks of some type of food wrapped in leaves, bags of decaying vegetation, and mounds of black grubs of some kind (thankfully dead). They must have been in a bag to start with, but now they were all through the bag, thousands of them, each over and inch long and touched with yellow bits. And over everything were crawling live insects. Turns out the bag originated in Johannesburg, South Africa, and how it got by those beagles who are supposed to inspect for foreign plants and animals I really don't know. (Oh, the name of the passenger just popped back into my mind, too - Blessed Manzila.) It was even leaking some kind of liquid, probably from all the decay, and the airline had no idea what to do with it so they said they were going to bag it and toss it in the trash. I do hope that our manager took our worries into account and contacted the Department of Agriculture to pick it up and dispose of it properly, because a plastic bag is not going to keep all those delightful little South African bugs from getting out. They might just die in the Maine winter, but it hasn't been as cold as it should be.
People could not shake that one from their minds, after viewing it. I'll bet some had dreams about it.
I have to tell you all about the nastiest bag I think I've seen yet, in seven years of inspecting people's bags. One of the airports in DC sent it here, I have no idea why. Perhaps they just had no idea what to do with it. So, no passenger with it, and it must have been sent out onto the baggage carousel and sat there for a while because they decided to rescreen it. One of my coworkers ended up having to open it, and now everyone who even looked at it seems to think they might come down with some rare tropical disease.
There were several bricks of some type of food wrapped in leaves, bags of decaying vegetation, and mounds of black grubs of some kind (thankfully dead). They must have been in a bag to start with, but now they were all through the bag, thousands of them, each over and inch long and touched with yellow bits. And over everything were crawling live insects. Turns out the bag originated in Johannesburg, South Africa, and how it got by those beagles who are supposed to inspect for foreign plants and animals I really don't know. (Oh, the name of the passenger just popped back into my mind, too - Blessed Manzila.) It was even leaking some kind of liquid, probably from all the decay, and the airline had no idea what to do with it so they said they were going to bag it and toss it in the trash. I do hope that our manager took our worries into account and contacted the Department of Agriculture to pick it up and dispose of it properly, because a plastic bag is not going to keep all those delightful little South African bugs from getting out. They might just die in the Maine winter, but it hasn't been as cold as it should be.
People could not shake that one from their minds, after viewing it. I'll bet some had dreams about it.
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