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on my way to my last event in the States which was Dragonship Haven's Baronial Birthday down in Ct. I meant to write this before, but forgot. So..since I'm going to the same place tomorrow, it reminded me. Just thought those who hadn't heard the story would get a giggle.

Friday morning I draw up to the border. As I pull up I hear this insane beeping. Really loud and fast. Looked around. It wasn't me. Young lady in the booth asks me to please pull up so she can get OUT of the booth. I oblige.
the beeping is still going on. She walks out of the booth and goes around BOB from the back up past to passenger side and back to me. Meanwhile, a young reservist with his hand on his weapon is looking into BOB through the side doors. I'm becoming confused. So.. the original border guard comes up to the window holding what looks sort of like a cell phone and it is beeping. Loud and fast. I, looking terribly confused, said... what in the world is beeping?
Trying hard to keep a straight face, the young lady asks me.."Ma'am, have you had any medical tests in the past few days." My face is now covered by my hands and I say "Oh gods! I had a Thyroid scan yesterday...I'm radioactive, aren't I." No longer trying not to smile, she asks me to get out of BOB. I do so. Beep...beeep... "Could you please back up a little" Sigh. I do so. She runs it up the back of my seat..it beeps. I say, with embarrassment, "I've been in him a lot since then". She goes around to the back and tries to open the back. I bring the key over to her. Beeep. "Could you please step back?"
I do so. Beeping stops. She smiles. I smile back...sheepishly.
She hands me back my papers, wishes me a good trip and I leave.

But wait! There's more!

I87 has a semi-permanent roadblock just after the Ausable Chasm, and just before a rest stop. As I'm slowly approaching I'm fervently praying that they don't have the same machine. Get up to the young reservist (not the same one from the border). He is looking concernedly at his jacket pocket area and has his hand on it. "Ma'am, have you had...." Before he could finish, I sheepishly admited the folly of Thursday and what had already happened at the border. "But I didn't hear the beeping this time". "No Ma'am, I have one that vibrates. (Fool, he was wearing it in the wrong place..coulda had some fun out of it). Then he says..."Didn't your Dr. give you a paper?" Nope. And didn't occur to me to ask, either. "Did he tell you that you should be peeing in your own bathroom for a few days because that's how you get rid of it?" I immediately envisioned a toilet sitting in the back of BOB. "No, he didn't."
"Okay, have a good trip" Sigh.

So I went right to the rest stop and proceeded to make the first of many radioactive deposits in NY and Ct.

Just thought I'd share. *grin* And that is exactly as it happened.