I fly pretty regularly, but in the past seven years I've never had a paper ticket.

I always just zip through the electronic check-in counter, passing mild looks of disdain at those other people milling around with their pieces of paper stuck in long winding queues. And they always seem to be anxious and worried and beholden to the service desk clerks.

Which made tonight's little adventure awfully embarrassing for me.

You see, about a year ago I volunteered to be bump