Cory's account about acquiring "contraband" at the airport's gift shop caused me to recall a little non-incident that happened on our way to North Carolina last month.
After passing through a rigorous security screening in which I had to take off no less than three articles of clothing, I wandered into the terminal gift shop to purchase some flight reading materials (I always buy really trashy entertainment magazines for plane trips -- it's a guilty pleasure). There, in the gift shop, on a pile of magazines lay a (worker's ?) abandoned, massive 12-inch screwdriver -- something that would have certainly been confiscated by airport security. Another customer in the gift shop picked up the screwdriver and brought it to the store clerk who immediately gave a big fat whatever look and thus confirmed the notion that people who hate their jobs and aren't too intimate with common sense should not work near airplanes.
