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Old Mar 31, 2011, 11:21 am
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Originally Posted by l'etoile
ID checker asked this am and I said:Smith. Woman says it's not. I say that's how I pronounce it. She gets a sup. He says my name pretty well (it has a bunch of consonants together) so I say Smith. I tell him my name is foreign and not all letters have the same sounds in every language. I ask if he's a linguist. After second time he tells me no. He says he's going to get a behavior analyst. I say good. He disappears, returns after a few minutes, runs my boarding pass again and tells me to go. I figure I'll get pulled for 'random' secondary, but I'm not. Don't give into this. I ask what they do if folks are mute. Of course, sup doesn't answer.
Very well done Ms. Smith ^^ <applause>
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