Originally Posted by jib71

Long, long ago I had to deal with a young woman (probably fresh out of college) at a security checkpoint in Haneda airport, who said (in Japanese) "Please make sure that you remove all metal objects, phones, keys, coins and so on from your pockets before you walk through the metal detector... although there's no point me standing here and saying this since it's obvious that you don't have a clue what I am saying"

I complained. She was very embarrassed. Deep down I thought it was rather funny....