Originally Posted by virtualtroy
At last, it's always a bit of an anti-climax disembarking from a flight in F / J only to find yourself behind 200 Japanese tourists, each of whom sets of the metal detector.
On one occasion when I was in an interminable queue at the flight connections centre security check, we were filing slowly past one of the 2 or 3 unmanned x-ray machines, which had a sign on its conveyor belt saying "sorry machine out of use". An American behind me in the line exclaimed "if we're having to wait in line for an hour it's because this sorry machine's out of use!"
Well, I thought it was funny.