The Stripped Searched Pensioners

My parents got back from their year-long stay in their holiday home in Jamaica this morning. When me and my brother met them at the airport, they didn’t look as happy and refreshed as they usually do. In fact, my dad looked like he’d just been a few rounds in the ring with a heavy weight champion and my mum looked as though she’d aged 20 years.

Unfortunately for them, they were both stripped searched! Why ? Because my mother had ‘hidden’ a suspicious looking plant in her hand luggage. Turns out it was Thyme! But airport security didn’t care that my parents are old aged pensioners. They didn’t care that Thyme is a legal herb and not a bag of weed. So they were stripped and searched and tampered with by officials wearing rubber gloves; they were felt up, pressed, poked and rubbed and then let go with a caution.

I can’t imagine what my mum was thinking. She’s got a large bush of Thyme in her greenhouse in South London! Unless my parents are up to something they’ve not told me about. It’s got me thinking – if they’ve got a house in Jamaica and a house in London and can afford to live in two countries on a state pension, then maybe they’re not so innocent.

Is that big bush in the greenhouse really Thyme or is it Marijuana?

I always thought my mum’s chocolate brownies were too good to be true!