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COMMENTARY WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 2017 HERMISTONHERALD.COM • A7 When flying the friendly skies, the airport grounds me A lthough not even not at restaurants, nada. close to the fiasco One particular trip, I a recent United decided to remedy that Airlines passenger by bringing a pair of experienced, I was Tillamook cheese baby thinking back about some loafs. I’m not sure why I thought I need- of my travel woes ed four pounds of over the years. cheese for 15 days, I’ve observed but that’s what I escalations of pas- packed. sengers on several To ensure it flights, but my most would be in decent memorable expe- shape by the time riences have taken Tammy we landed in the hot place in airports. Malgesini and humid climate, John and I used INSIDE MY I froze them. I also to own a timeshare SHOES decided to wrap in Mazatlan, so we often traveled to Mexi- each package in alumi- co. After making several num foil. I didn’t think that trips, it became apparent how addicted I am to Til- through very well. Yup, it pretty much lamook cheese. Seriously, I went through withdraw- looked like I was smug- al. I would have settled gling drugs. Oh, and to for any cheddar cheese, really add to the appear- but you couldn’t find it ance of international anywhere — not in stores, drug smugglers, my hus- band brought a couple of pounds of ground coffee. For the uninformed, cof- fee is often used to mask odors to throw off drug detection dogs. My realization of how this all appeared flooded my brain as we headed to customs at the Mazat- lan airport. John dropped his bag of coffee while rifling through his back- pack. Trying not to pan- ic, as sweat poured off my brow, I thought may- be they wouldn’t make a thorough search of our bags. This was the late-1980s and when you stepped to the front of the line, you pressed a button. If you got a green light, they waved you through. And, a red light meant more in- depth searches. The odds were against us. Each previous visit, we had gotten the green light. We were due to be detained. I had packed the foil- wrapped cheese in the center amongst clothes — lots of clothes. Luckily, they merely did a curso- ry search and we were on our way. During another trip to Mexico, we were heading home and John’s carry-on baggage caught the at- tention of security. Soon, there were several agents standing around talking in hushed tones — not that I could have under- stood what they were say- ing as my Spanish is muy poquito. Finally, one of them pulled out the ques- tionable item — a Cos- to-sized package of dou- ble-AA batteries. The best we could figure is they thought it was a package of bullets when viewing it through the baggage scanner. Another time we ar- rived in the United States and were going through customs in Los Angeles. Once again, the x-ray ma- chine seemed to alert on something in John’s bag. The agent asked what was in a side zipper compart- ment. Trying to save her the odoriferous encounter of the running clothes he wore that morning — which, by then, were ripe after stewing in a plastic bag for hours — John said, “You don’t want to open that.” Well, of course she did after a statement like that. I have sinus issues and my sense of smell isn’t that great, but I’m gag- ging now just thinking about it. All of these experienc- es have added addition- al considerations when I’m packing. However, I still periodically raise the eyebrows of securi- ty agents as they come across weird items in my bag. Although, none have blinked an eye about my TENS machine during several post 9-11 flights when security is suppos- edly heightened — that’s a whole other column in itself. ——— Tammy Malgesini is the community editor. Her column, Inside my Shoes, includes general musings about life. Contact her at tmalgesini@eastore- gonian.com or 541-564- 4539. 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