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Placing the travel warrant on top of the robot guardian, Miss ActiveVolcano recited the staff incantation, “you just have to hold it still,” and the robot reluctantly accepted it.
FULLYCHARGED
(Addressing HAYLEY in a whisper.)
I think it must have been the robot’s fault.
BENET
Then the mandatory fun continues! They stood in a different queue for another one hour, waiting for the scatter brained guardian of the forbidden belongings to look inside their bags. At least this guardian was a real human being.
And I’m using the word “human” in the widest possible sense of the word.
Actually, some of them were inhumane!
Mrs ScatterBrain checked NottaPenny’s bag … no problem.
When it was SimpleSimon’s turn Mr Inhumane ScatterBrain looked inside his bag and told him not to clean his teeth. He said it was forbidden, and then he stole the toothpaste saying that SimpleSimon must be obscenely rich to be carrying such an extravagantly large tube of toothpaste!
As SimpleSimon and NottaPenny arrive at gate number Eleventy Billion and One, they’re met by the gatekeeper, Mrs FireBreathingDragon.
HAYLEY
(Whispering.)
He’s making up these names!
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