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Re: Famous operational issues
From: Andy Ringsmuth <andy () andyring com>
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2021 22:08:19 -0600
On Feb 18, 2021, at 4:37 PM, Warren Kumari <warren () kumari net> 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 andy () andyring com “Better even die free, than to live slaves.” - Frederick Douglas, 1863
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- Re: Famous operational issues sronan (Feb 22)
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- Re: Famous operational issues Christopher Morrow (Feb 22)
- Re: Famous operational issues Paul Ebersman (Feb 18)
- Re: Famous operational issues Randy Bush (Feb 18)
- Re: Famous operational issues Andy Ringsmuth (Feb 18)
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- Re: Famous operational issues Mark Tinka (Feb 18)
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