Along_the_Wire I went through Dohar a few years ago and they were swiping everybody’s wallets etc as we were boarding the plane. I was in business class as well so a bit peeved.
Mine pinged just like on border patrol and flashed up red for coke. To say my life flashed before me is an understatement. I also had genuinely no idea weher it came from. I really had not been near anything or anyone for ages.
The I remembered that the week before I went I had been working with an ENT surgheon and we use cocaine / adrenaline for nasal spray on patients to make the durgery easier (we do it once asleep and spray it up). We’d done about 6 patients so it obvisouly gets everywhere and I probably touched my wallet after.
As I stood there dropping my load they just waved me onto the plane. rather than take my free pass I actaully asked what had happened and they told me it was ‘too low’ to care about.
I didn;t realise qatar had a ‘too low’. Waiting to take off was like a scene from a movie. Once we were in the air I could not have been happier.
At work we are regularly touching cocaine / diamorphine (heroin) / fentanyl.
