The line at the Lafayette Avenue (Avenue de Lafayette, hoo-boy) post office was so long today that people weren't going through the metal detectors or bomb detectors or whatever the heck those things are. Instead, they'd walk through the door and immediately cut left to get to the end of the line. I'm not sure if those things have ever caught anyone anywhere on the planet. How do we even know if they're on?--they just sort of sit there and basically get in the way.
The only time I've ever heard anything like that go off is in some place like TJ Maxx when some clerk forgot to take off the security tag off a coat.
