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Thorough security and Graphic Recording

A few years ago I was hired to work at the headquarters of an aerospace conglomerate that produces commercial, military, executive and agriculture aircrafts and they asked to submit in advance a thorough list of materials on my working bag and the exact amount of each similar item. I complied. Well, little did I know that upon arrival on site, before going through the x-ray machine, the security team will be checking the submitted list item by item and inspecting every single marker I had (there were 121 of them) uncapping them and trying a few ones! It took me 45 minutes to get in and another 45 min to get out of their facility. 

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LOL!

The worst that happened to me was going through security and they didn't know what my protractor was. I reminded them it was from geometry in high school - they still didn't understand. I explained it was how I drew perfect circles and arcs. They still didn't understand. I had to pull a piece of paper out and show them how to use the protractor before TSA decided to let me through security with my protractor.