> On Feb 18, 2021, at 4:37 PM, Warren Kumari <[email protected]> wrote: > > 4: Not too long after I started doing networking (and for the same small ISP > in Yonkers), I'm flying off to install a new customer. I (of course) think > that I'm hot stuff because I'm going to do the install, configure the router, > whee, look at me! Anyway, I don't want to check a bag, and so I stuff the > Cisco 2501 in a carryon bag, along with tools, etc (this was all pre-9/11!). > I'm going through security and the TSA[0] person opens my bag and pulls the > router out. "What's this?!" he asks. I politely tell him that it's a router. > He says it's not. I'm still thinking that I'm the new hotness, and so I tell > him in a somewhat condescending way that it is, and I know what I'm talking > about. He tells me that it's not a router, and is starting to get annoyed. I > explain using my "talking to a 5 year old" voice that it most certainly is a > router. He tells me that lying to airport security is a federal offense, and > starts looming at me. I adjust my attitude and start explaining that it's > like a computer and makes the Internet work. He gruffly hands me back the > router, I put it in my bag and scurry away. As I do so, I hear him telling > his colleague that it wasn't a router, and that he certainly knows what a > router is, because he does woodwork…
Well, in his defense, he wasn’t wrong… :-) ---- Andy Ringsmuth 5609 Harding Drive Lincoln, NE 68521-5831 (402) 304-0083 [email protected] “Better even die free, than to live slaves.” - Frederick Douglas, 1863
