We flew to Ottawa, Ontario yesterday. While passing through Security at Phoenix Airport, I had to put my brand new $1000 laptop in one tub, and my shoes, wallet, etc. in another. After passing through the X-Ray machine, I nested the shoe tub on top of the laptop tub and took them to a bench to put my shoes back on. Got everything out of the tub — it was empty, let’s go!<\/p>\n
Got to Ottawa, opened up my suitcase, and — extreme sinking feeling — no laptop. Frantically looking everywhere, when it dawned on me. It was left behind between the nested tubs. <\/p>\n
Call Phoenix TSA Lost and Found. No answer — too late. Slept OK, but hard to relax completely. This morning, I called back, and they had found it! Fortunately the “empty” tubs after the X-Ray machine are only handled by TSA personnel. If it had been left anywhere else it would not be so likely to have been returned.<\/p>\n
Boy, do I feel stupid, but lucky. Derek will pick it up for me. My presentation was on it, but fortunately my colleague Les has another laptop with a duplicate presentation (just in case!), so we are in good shape. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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