REGINA, CANADA A woman was at an airport in Canada, in a hurry to catch her plane. When she went through the metal detector, it made a noise. Bzzz! Airport officials carefully checked her. There were no coins in her pockets and no metal in her shoes. They told her to walk through again. Bzzz! The officials searched her once again. There was nothing! Finally, they let her pass and board the plane.
Several days later, the woman had a stomachache. She went to her doctor and got an X-ray. There was a 30-centimeter-long metal instrument in her stomach from an old operation. She was surprised and angry. So that was why she had a stomachache—and all the trouble at the airport!
“Everyone makes mistakes,” a hospital official explained. “No one is perfect.”
detector: something that finds metal
X-ray: a photo of the inside of your body
