My pocket knife<\/strong> – Ok, this one has the most interesting story I think! \u00a0First, the backstory. \u00a0Back in 2002 I was traveling to China quite a bit for work. \u00a0On one of my trips to China I forgot to leave my pocket knife at home and I had to surrender it at security. \u00a0It was just one of those mini swiss army knives with blade, file, scissors, toothpick and tweezers but\u00a0this was not too long after 9\/11 so they were strict. \u00a0On this particular trip to China Steph came over to visit me and then we took some time to travel a bit. \u00a0On our way through Hong Kong on our way home I found a mini swiss army knife in the window well of a restaurant. \u00a0I was able to put it in my checked luggage and have had the thing ever since. \u00a0Now, the front story. \u00a0We were taking a tour of the Capitol building in DC. \u00a0All week I’d been reminding myself to NOT take my knife with me that day. \u00a0Well, we show up at the Senate office building and there is a security gate. \u00a0I place my pocket contents in the dish sure that they will confiscate the knife….but they don’t! \u00a0Must be because it’s so dinky I figure. \u00a0We meet our tour guide in Senator Gardner’s office and head over to the Capitol. \u00a0Once again I must go through a security check. \u00a0Once again I place my knife in the dish. \u00a0And once again they hand me the dish to put the contents back in my pocket. \u00a0We have a very enjoyable tour and then we have some time on our own to visit the senate and house galleries. \u00a0For these you must stash\u00a0all electronic devices with security before you can enter. \u00a0So I leave phone and camera with them. \u00a0We take the long walk to the gallery and come upon yet one more security check point. \u00a0Instead of repeating my actions at the previous two checkpoints I decide to stash my knife in an inconspicuous location, proceed through security then retrieve knife upon exit (typing it out just now does not sound too bright…but for some reason it made sense at the time). \u00a0We go in and watch some senate action. \u00a0It was mostly enjoyable but I started thinking…”what if they find the knife? \u00a0And they run the video surveillance tapes? \u00a0And they see it was me?” \u00a0Every time the gallery doors were opened by security to let more visitors in my heart skipped thinking they would come in and arrest me. \u00a0But they never did. \u00a0Alright, we’re going to pull this off after all! \u00a0We walk past security and I can see my knife is still where I left it…it’s then I realize that my placement of the knife was not easily accessible when exiting. \u00a0I thought,\u00a0“I don’t want to leave it there. \u00a0What if they find the knife? \u00a0And they run the video surveillance tapes? \u00a0And they see it was me?”. \u00a0So I work my way around the security ropes, pick up the knife and continue my exit when a security guard stops me….”oh $#!7″. \u00a0I explain to him what I had done and admitted that it was pretty dumb. \u00a0His boss said to him “You’ll have to do a p368 on him and escort him out of the building”. \u00a0So the officer gets my ID, calls in the P368 (I actually don’t remember the code) giving them all my details and apparently the results come back clean. \u00a0“But I still have to fill out this form and file it….it won’t go on your record or anything” he tells me. \u00a0He was very nice about it. \u00a0I felt like a total dork fish. \u00a0He then gives me the option to keep the knife and be escorted out of the building or surrender the knife. \u00a0As the title of this post suggest, I surrendered the knife. \u00a0He said “are you sure? \u00a0How long have you had this knife?”. \u00a0I told him I was sure…its a $10 knife that was missing the tweezers. \u00a0So, I’ll probably never be able to run for office of any sort since I have a P368 on file at our\u00a0nation’s capitol.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We have lost and broken a few things along our 10,000 miles we’ve traveled…nothing major, but I’ll list them here for posterity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[50,12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1610"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1637,"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions\/1637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}