Are you carrying an electronic device?

Bags and suitcases must pass through a scanner upon entering and exiting, which displays the contents in green and black. If a bag or suitcase contains an electronic device, such as a computer, a special sticker is placed on it. Upon exiting, the sticker is removed and discarded. I don't know if mobile phones count as devices, because never in my life, never once, in that public institution, has anyone been seen without their phone in their hand.

"Are you carrying a tablet"What?" the guard at the door asks me when it's my turn. She's just passed my backpack through. I tell her no. I always carry my laptop because sometimes I write this article while traveling, but I don't have it today because it's broken. "Yes, there's an electronic device," she says, having passed through the metal archway, but I couldn't see what the screen was showing her because, with this idea, it was facing her, not those of us entering. "Aviam?" (broken). It wouldn't be the first time I've "clept," I swear unintentionally, pens and all sorts of stationery (what a weakness, stationery!). "I can't show it to you, but you have to open an electronic device," she says. "I'm doing a meditation a friend recommended to me." "It's this! Man, it's just..." I don't understand. "What?" I ask. "That thing here!" Her accusing finger shows it to me: "that thing here" is a book.