Oh sheesh, Lynn, I was kind of kidding when I joked about you dragging out the airport drama for a week. I didn't mean you should really try to do it!
Note how the airport personnel look like all the generic people in this strip, rather rude and crass.
Also, is that a box of maxipads in that final panel? I mean, I get that Lynn's trying to show that April's nonplussed by the personal things exposed, but horrified she forgot about her nail scissors, but come on.
Also, although she apparently hasn't left Manitoba yet, the person standing behind her in the last panel looks eerily like Mike.
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I actually got the sense April WAS embarrassed at all her stuff being exposed, and the clerk misunderstood what she was embarrassed about (they thought she was cringing at inconveniancing them, but she really was upset about her stuff all over the place).
And now I'M embarrassed I put that much thought into this.
that's what i thought too.
Yeah, I think that's it -- April is horrified that all her stuff is on display, and the guy thinks she's horrified about the nail scissors.
It's a thinker!
Kinda like the time they opened up and examined my birth control pills right in front of my mother-in-law, for like five minutes. The homeland was more secure that day, let me tell you ...
I think it's the opposite -- that April's embarassed that her bra is on the turnstile because of the nail scissors, but that the searcher doesn't get it. Of course. Because why would the common folk get the Pattersons?
Just for the record, that is not a typical Canadian domestic airport experience. Nobody would freak out over nail scissors, they'd just say she can't have them and take them away. And it's pretty likely that her stuff wouldn't be strewn over the turnstile -- even if they did have to empty her bag, they'd take it to a seperate table away from the general search line.
OK, apparently I didn't get the strip this time. It makes more sense that she's embarrassed about the contents of her suitcase being strewn while the workers, used to it, think she's embarrassed about the nail scissors. Or something.
Not sure if the fact that I didn't get it is a comment on me or on Lynn's meticulous plotting.
Also, did April have any actual clothes in her suitcase? All I can see are bras, panties, and maxi pads.
No wonder April is embarrassed -- now everyone will know that she's secretly an underwear model on the side.
Reminds me of one time (before all the post 9-11 security stuff) where I had a mirror in my bag that confused the x-ray machine, so they had to search my bag. The mirror was found underneath all my panties and maxipads, and the 19 year old boy who was searching it was looking rather embarrassed. (I was about 12 or 13 at the time this happened.)
Nowadays they'd probably drag me off for questioning. Hey, that would have been funny! They could have two seprate overdramatic plotlines going -- while Liz tries to sort out all the attempted rape stuff, April gets sent to Guantanamo Bay and makes several comical escape attempts while she waits to be charged. Or is that too political?
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