Fandango’s Story Starter

This week’s Story Starter teaser is:

This whole crazy chain of events started when I accidentally picked up the wrong suitcase at the airport. As I approached the baggage exit, I was stopped because I set off some type of alarm. At first I ignored it because I wasn’t doing anything wrong and all of a sudden I was tackled by a security guard and slammed to the floor. I was shocked, hurt of course, and embarrassed. I was then pulled up, handcuffed and taken to a back room. The whole experience was a nightmare and I sat there while another guard opened my suitcase and started rifling through it. I looked incredulously because none of those things were mine! Then I guess they found what they were looking for and just stared at me like I was a criminal. Then the phone rang and someone must have realized it was not my suitcase after all. The person who had my suitcase was caught when the labels on it didn’t match his ticket and I thanked the gods that they were still “inconveniencing” people with that secure exit policy, even though I was a victim of it. It turns out that what set off the alarm was an illegal item that was not allowed to cross borders. Luckily it was not actually dangerous and I was shortly given my own suitcase and my freedom.

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