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Old Jun 30, 2008, 1:25 pm
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oneofthosepeopleyouloveto hate
 
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Today at the checkpoint, I encountered the unspeakable ...

In a word: Furries!

OMG ...

Seems they'd had a convention in town over the weekend, which they do periodically, according to my esteemed colleagues, who apparently have encountered them before.

(BTW, if you don't know what a "furry" is, I am not going to explain! However, I *will* recommend you don't Google an answer on a work-related computer.)

Actually, things went pretty smoothly ... I *did* have a male passenger wearing a floor-length faux fox tail clipped to the rear of his jeans begin SWISHING it seductively in my direction after he caught me giggling at it! But it was all in good fun ...

One of my co-workers was less amused upon being called to search a bag that contained a LITTER PAN ... and no, the passenger was NOT flying accompanied by a feline!!!!

Being OCD, I'm not sure all the rubber gloves and hand sanitizer in the world would have gotten me past THAT traumu ...
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