The man in front of me in the airport security line burst into flames

He had been a completely ordinary looking fellow, now a roaring inferno.<br><br>The security team didn’t seem terribly surprised, they just quickly rolled out an extinguisher cart. After putting out the fire, they hosed him down and shoveled the remains into a bucket. They scanned his charred remains through an x-ray machine, and I saw the faint outline of a briefcase. <br><br>“Is there anything flammable in your bag?” the TSA agent asked, pulling my luggage off the scanner.<br><br>“Nope.” I replied.<br><br>“Sir, there is something flammable in this bag.”<br><br>I opened it and pushed the clothes around, searching. That’s when I noticed the boarding pass. The name on it wasn’t mine. The destination was not where I was going.<br><br>“You there, Sir!”<br><br>I looked up and the TSA agent was holding the bag. “Is this yours?”<br><br>It was my bag. But again, the name on the boarding pass attached to it was not mine. It was the same destination as the first one I found though.<br><br>“Sir, please answer me.”<br><br>I stood there, dumbfounded, as the agent started to empty the bag onto the scanner belt.<br><br>More boarding passes. I was a traveling Inferno factory.<br><br>“Sir, are you alright?”<br><br>I nodded, still silent.<br><br>“Sir, speak to me.”<br><br>I shook my head, still silent.<br><br>The TSA agents started to stare at me. One of them whispered the dreaded words, “We need to scan you.”<br><br>They took me aside and started to wand me. A boarding pass fell out of my sleeve, into my hand.<br><br>“Sir, please explain yourself!”<br><br>I knew why I was there. I had to move the boarding passes around. I had to make sure the next man to go through the scanner would burn.<br><br>I looked at the boarding pass in my hand.<br><br>The destination was nowhere I had ever heard of.<br><br>I wondered what would happen if I did burn. Would it be like the man in front of me, who had burned away to nothing?<br><br>I made my decision.<br><br>I shoved the boarding pass in my pocket, and walked through the scanner.