how to go through metal detectors

I went with a friend to pick up some paperwork at our sheriff’s office and realized quickly that I would need to go through a metal detector… UMMM… heart monitor?!?! The guard just told me to empty everything else from my pockets and come on through. They didn’t ask to see the heart monitor, just took my word for it that this box with wires from my pocket running up my shirt was a heart monitor. Couldn’t have possibly been anything else!? 😉 So, as I’m picking up the remainder of my belongings from the x-ray tray, the guard realizes that I left a hair tie in my “other” pocket and made a huge ordeal out of that. I had to take out the small circular hair tie… and she came out to inspect that pocket was now empty… still ignoring the one with the heart monitor. When I got home, I realized I actually had a thumb drive, pedometer and headset cable in the pocket with the heart monitor (yes, I’m a packrat). It was such awesome security to catch that rogue hair tie… Things that make you go HMMMMM.