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Group: nashville.general · Group Profile
Author: OlinOlin Date: Mar 25, 2008 19:24
"Boston Blackie (Read only 0.01%% by KD the Merciless!)" mail.com>
wrote in message news:2008032519591816807-bblackie@mailcom...> On 2008-03-25 19:41:53 -0500, "Olin" comcast.net> said:
>>> It's entirely possible we visited on just a really bad day, but the fact
>> that their security measures deactivated our hotel key card (and may have
>> done similar damage to credit and debit cards) really did bother me.
>
> I was standing in line waiting to pass through one of those security gates
> when the gentleman in front of me, after a quick discussion with the
> guard, walked around it and on to his destination.
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> Curious, I asked the guard how that happened. Seems my predecessor wears
> a pacemaker and he absolutely should not walk through the gate.
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Absolutely. Used to be the airports had signs to that effect... at least
some of them did. Same for folks with metal hardware in various body parts.
> Nobody that I know wears mechanical watches, these days, but I wonder if
> the gates will stop those if they're worn.
>
Not sure if my watch qualifies as mechanical. It's not digital, but it is a
Citizen Eco-Drive and it came through just fine, or so it seems so far.
It does not seem to have affected the credit/debit cards we carry, but it
surely did affect that hotel key card and the clerk said, "Happens all the
time" when we told her we'd been to the aquarium. And, luckily, my camera is
digital, so even if it had affected it, all that would have happened was the
pictures on the memory stick would have been erased, and that was no great
loss.
As is usually the case for me these days... the things I really would like
to photograph are never convenient to a spot to stand for the best angles.
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