Coming back from Vancouver after a fishing trip with my sons and my wife on Vancouver Island and then a few days visiting my mother, I was sure that I had lost my Swiss Army knife ... just like the one I described earlier in this thread. I had been looking for it so that I could put it in a bag I was intending to check.

Went through the security at YVR. They looked in my carry-ons, made me turn on the digital SLR camera, etc. etc.

Once on the plane, I reached into my camera bag and came up with the knife.

Seems neither I nor the screener could find it!

Not everyone works at the airport. Many of us lead complicated and chaotic lives. To forget a pair of cuticle scissors - as my wife did last month on our way ORD - LHR - is not so uncommon even for people who travel a lot.

BFD, sez I.