A particularly keen young customs officer decided to run a spot check on an elderly woman and a younger man as they came through Heathrow after a flight from the United States. Graphic by Shutterstock
He searched everything in their hand luggage very carefully and, coming across a small porcelain lidded container he opened it up. Seeing a powdery substance inside it he licked his finger, dipped it into the container, then tasted it.
The elderly woman burst into tears, and initially the young customs officer thought he had caught his first drug smuggler. “Hmmm,” he mused after a second or two, “it certainly doesn’t taste like an illegal drug.”
“Of course it doesn’t, you idiot,” snarled the younger man who was comforting the older woman. “And thank you for upsetting my mother. It’s my late father’s ashes.”