“You’re the third one this morning that’s had the yarn explode out of the carry-on.”

Going through security at the Manchester, New Hampshire airport is also possibly the best security I've ever gone through. I packed my stuff very carefully so -- to come home -- so that my carry-on -- I pulled out my plastic bag with my toiletries and stuff and laid it on the thing and did all the stuff you're supposed to do and set it on. Well, the gal behind me had been at the knitting convention also. We'd both been given these gigantic bags of free yarn. And I had left mine in the plastic bag thinking -- and it was in my, my big suitcase so it didn't go through security with me. It had gone to the luggage land. But this gal that was behind me in the security line, she put her carry-on on the thing and the guy asked her to open it and she was looking for her toiletries and her toiletries were at the bottom. And as she opened her bag, the yarn exploded out of the suitcase. It was bright orange yarn. She had nine skeins, about the size of a football, of bright orange yarn stuffed in that bag and it just, like, popped out and exploded over the belt that carries your luggage forward. The guys at the security, at, uh, security there, started laughing. I was laughing and I said to the guys, I said, "We were at a yarn convention." And the guy said, "Well," he said, "it's okay." And she was like, "Well, I'll get it picked up. I'll get it picked." He says, "Look behind you lady. There is nobody here. It's a Sunday morning and you ladies are the only ones here and if it takes you a while we don't care." And he started laughing and he said -- besides that he says, "We're wondering how many more of you are gonna have this experience." He says, "You're the third one this morning that's had the yarn explode out of the carry-on." And he looked at me and he said, "Where's yours?" And I said, "Oh I put mine in my, my big suitcase." And he laughed and he said, "That was a good idea." So that was a lot of fun. Not so much for her, but it was pretty funny. The whole thing with the yarn came flying, flying out of the…

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“We’re standing in the middle of the subway station looking like Americans who don’t know anything.”

My husband and I went to Europe, and we were in London, and we had just left Ireland. So we had all of our luggage and we were making it from the train to the subway and we didn't know where to go. We didn't know the first thing about a subway. We had all this luggage. And then my shoe decided to break. And we're standing in the middle of the subway station looking like Americans who don't know anything. And this one American came over to us who, he said -- I told him where we needed to go and he said he would point us in the right direction and he got on the, on the bus with us. On the subway bus with us. And when it came to our destination he pointed out that this was where we get off. Well, it turned out that he had gotten on the wrong bus just to help us. He had to go catch his own bus after he dropped us off to his destination -- to our destination. Which I thought was so incredibly kind of him. We get to the motel, we dropped off our luggage, I fixed my shoe. Things we- went great after that. But that total feeling of, of lost and alone and then a just savior out of, out of nowhere comes up and speaks with an American accent and tells you, "I'll show you where to go," that was priceless.

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“I started drawing tic-tac-toes in the carpet.”

Um, okay, so once when I was -- oh, I must have been like, six years old, maybe seven, and I got in trouble, right? So I was, like, put in my room, you know, I couldn't, like, get out. The thing is I was really mad, okay? And I, I didn't, I didn't want to be there, you know, I didn't want to be locked in my room but also, you know, like pride and everything, so. So I took a pencil and I started drawing in the carpet -- it's a white carpet, by the way, I started drawing like tic-tac-toes in the carpet. Um, 'cause I knew my parents would get mad. But you know later on, when I was out and everything, like, maybe like, in a couple hours, my dad noticed it. And then he was like, “Who did that?" you know? And he got really mad. But the thing is I was fine now, you know, and I didn't want to get in trouble, so I, I told him it was my sister. And I said, "I would never do something like this, but she would," so then she got in trouble. But I was like six, and she was, like, three, so I don't really think he was too mad 'cause three-year-olds kind of do that.

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“He started opening up the wall and the bed came down.”

But what was really cool about our hotel was that usually -- 'cause there's five of us. And me and my sis- -- three sisters, or, um two sisters, we all share a bed. We can all fit on one bed. But, at that time I was actually sick with just like a cold, and my parents, they were, were kind of thinking about how they could have us sleep in one bed if I'm kind of sick.  But -- so we walk in and there's two beds. My parents are like, "Where's the third bed? Is it a pull-out couch?" But we didn't see any pull-out couches. There was just two beds. So there was a sink, a really nice, really look- -- expensive looking sink, there was a shower, there was a bathroom, and there was two beds, and then there was just this flat wall with like these shelves in the, in the walls, which was pretty, pretty neat. So just this empty space. And then the guy that was driving the golf cart, he was helping us out, he was like, "Oh!" So he moved the tables out of the way where that empty space was. And then, you know what he started doing? He started opening up the wall and the bed came down from the wall into a bed! And I was like, "This is my first time seeing this type of bed!" And I was so excited. And it was actually bigger than both of those two beds. And that was so cool.

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