Drama at Diagoras airport

Drama at Diagoras!

You're all tired. The plane's ready for boarding. It's the end of another break. You've passed through check-in and all the security-areas in record time (about 20 minutes, unheard of at Rhodes airport). You take the bus to the plane and begin the painful walk up the steps to the open door of the aircraft where the chirpy stewardess greets you with a disarming smile. We reach the last step when my eldest turns to me and says, " Look there! That's Jak's suitcase!" He pointed to the case which was behind a very agitated-looking airline worker in his 'frapport' jacket. I have never seen a suitcase on the steps of a plane before.

I asked him, "Γιατι ειναι αυτο εδω?]" This translates as 'What's that doing there?" roughly....

He is very excited by this. "Is this your case?" he enquires.

"No." I reply. "It's his." And I point to my youngest who is now entering the cabin. He is immediately stopped and brought back out of the plane.

"Something is vibrating in his case," explains the man.

I'm shuffled onto the plane and not allowed to witness what happens next. Apparently, we have a suspected terrorist in our party! By the time we are seated, my youngest has been through the nightmarish process of having his case searched (only he may open it) for the suspect device.
Nothing found. Still vibrating. He opens the outside pocket. There he discovers two toothbrushes in a bag, his brother's vibrating in the on position, the case having been knocked about by the baggage-handlers. Sorted.

No longer a terrorist-suspect, but very angry, my son boards the plane and everyone's happy. Of course, he had earlier refused to help pack at the hotel, when time was against us. Sharing the baggage load was not his concern. The toothbrushes had only been pushed in there temporarily, then forgotten.

The moral: always pack your own bags!

Anyone ever had a spillage in a suitcase? (because this was the reason he didn't want other people's 'junk' in his case).
We once arrived with a case full of shampoo. The clothes got a good unwelcome wash! And I discovered my case full of suntan cream once. Total write-off!