{"id":2606,"date":"2025-04-01T21:31:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T20:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/?p=2606"},"modified":"2025-04-12T15:52:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T14:52:16","slug":"the-wrong-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/?p=2606","title":{"rendered":"The Wrong Line"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Three scientists, Papaia, Banani, Ravioli, and their assistant Igor, who need to attend the famous dark matter conference, head to the airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019re at the airport security checkpoint.<br>The four are waiting in line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The line is long, and Papaia, Ravioli, Banani, and Igor patiently wait for their turn. Banani, impatient, notices another line that looks much shorter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Banani: Hey, that line over there is empty! I\u2019m going there\u2014you guys do whatever you want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Papaia: Banani, wait! Are you sure that\u2019s the right line?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Banani moves to the empty line and quickly reaches the front, but a security officer stops him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officer (serious): Sir, this line is for airport staff only.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Banani (confused): But I have my passport\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officer: I don\u2019t need your passport, sir. I need an employee badge. Do you have one?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Banani: Uhm\u2026 how about a supermarket loyalty card?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officer: Sir, please return to the passenger line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Banani walks back, pretending nothing happened, as the other passengers chuckle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Igor: I don\u2019t know what\u2019s longer for Banani\u2014the airport line or his journey to common sense!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, at least in line, there\u2019s no way to mess up.<br>Or maybe there is\u2026 if you\u2019re Banani!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/?p=2603\">Previous<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/?p=2609\">Next<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three scientists, Papaia, Banani, Ravioli, and their assistant Igor, who need to attend the famous dark matter conference, head to the airport. We\u2019re at the airport security checkpoint.The four are waiting in line. The line is long, and Papaia, Ravioli, Banani, and Igor patiently wait for their turn. Banani, impatient, notices another line that looks &#8230; <a title=\"The Wrong Line\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/?p=2606\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Wrong Line\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-episode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2606"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4295,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606\/revisions\/4295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}