People not prepared for the TSA line. It's akin to people not being prepared to pump their gas at Costco. You had 5 minutes to put your incidentals in your pants pocket in nook of your carry on. Loosen your shoes. That being said some of the bullshit TSA requires from one location to the next, or even continues to require is baffling. Oh and people travelling with animals. Also check your bags.
Living in Lexington, I’m used to going out of a small airport often with only one X-ray machine. Since I’m precheck, I get a big laminated card so the X-ray people know I’m not taking off my shoes or removing my laptop. I’ve had the same experience flying out of Kauai.
Fly out of Palm Beach 2 years ago and they had minimum staffing and only one line so I get the big laminated card. Send my bag through and the fucking idiots pull it and ask if I have any electronics. I’m like yup. Fucking idiots starry nearly yelling at me that it’s supposed to come out. I reply that I’m precheck and they keep nearly yelling, it doesn’t matter.
That episode made my blood pressure go up a couple points.
After 9/11, I routinely got pulled in for electronics. Trying to explain to a couple of cement head TSA agents the purpose of a radar gun is not enjoyable. In Anchorage, I got put in an interrogation room and was there for an hour...at one point, I was going back and forth trying to decide whom I would call first, my boss or my attorney. Finally, they brought in an FBI guy who had a clue...We got letters to carry from the commissioner's office after about 6 months, with a LEO hotline number...
In the 1990s coming back from France I got taken aside after arriving at Sea-Tac and taken to a room for roughly 45 minutes.
When me and my buddies Xavier et Francis were driving across the border from New York into Quebec at 2AM, we got separated and taken into 3 separate rooms and grilled. The car was searched.
Finally, I have been pulled out of line at airports 5-6 times and had my travel bag emptied and swabbed. I've never been arrested or spent time incarcerated. But I don't know...
They see the shit you post and are making sure you’re not trafficking Indians and Koreans.
You no doubt reported me on their "See Something, Say Something" hotline
When I was about 8, my brother and I flew a red-eye from O'Hare to SeaTac on a 747 with about 15 people on it. After we got to cruising altitude and everyone was snoozing, we found an unattended drink cart, and pilfered a bunch of airline liquor bottles. I got wasted on Grasshoppers and got my diabetes all whacked out at the same time. Since we landed in the middle of the night, I told my mom I just woke up and that's why I was stumbling around. She either bought it or was too tired to GAF. .
Anyone who has never been drunk while teetering in the brink of diabetic coma has never been properly drunk.
We sure got a lot of diabeetus on these boards.
Mine isn't the old and fat kind of diabeetus, but still.
I know. I just wanted to say “diabeetus” in a WB voice.
People not prepared for the TSA line. It's akin to people not being prepared to pump their gas at Costco. You had 5 minutes to put your incidentals in your pants pocket in nook of your carry on. Loosen your shoes. That being said some of the bullshit TSA requires from one location to the next, or even continues to require is baffling. Oh and people travelling with animals. Also check your bags.
Living in Lexington, I’m used to going out of a small airport often with only one X-ray machine. Since I’m precheck, I get a big laminated card so the X-ray people know I’m not taking off my shoes or removing my laptop. I’ve had the same experience flying out of Kauai.
Fly out of Palm Beach 2 years ago and they had minimum staffing and only one line so I get the big laminated card. Send my bag through and the fucking idiots pull it and ask if I have any electronics. I’m like yup. Fucking idiots starry nearly yelling at me that it’s supposed to come out. I reply that I’m precheck and they keep nearly yelling, it doesn’t matter.
That episode made my blood pressure go up a couple points.
After 9/11, I routinely got pulled in for electronics. Trying to explain to a couple of cement head TSA agents the purpose of a radar gun is not enjoyable. In Anchorage, I got put in an interrogation room and was there for an hour...at one point, I was going back and forth trying to decide whom I would call first, my boss or my attorney. Finally, they brought in an FBI guy who had a clue...We got letters to carry from the commissioner's office after about 6 months, with a LEO hotline number...
In the 1990s coming back from France I got taken aside after arriving at Sea-Tac and taken to a room for roughly 45 minutes.
When me and my buddies Xavier et Francis were driving across the border from New York into Quebec at 2AM, we got separated and taken into 3 separate rooms and grilled. The car was searched.
Finally, I have been pulled out of line at airports 5-6 times and had my travel bag emptied and swabbed. I've never been arrested or spent time incarcerated. But I don't know...
They see the shit you post and are making sure you’re not trafficking Indians and Koreans.
You no doubt reported me on their "See Something, Say Something" hotline
People not prepared for the TSA line. It's akin to people not being prepared to pump their gas at Costco. You had 5 minutes to put your incidentals in your pants pocket in nook of your carry on. Loosen your shoes. That being said some of the bullshit TSA requires from one location to the next, or even continues to require is baffling. Oh and people travelling with animals. Also check your bags.
Living in Lexington, I’m used to going out of a small airport often with only one X-ray machine. Since I’m precheck, I get a big laminated card so the X-ray people know I’m not taking off my shoes or removing my laptop. I’ve had the same experience flying out of Kauai.
Fly out of Palm Beach 2 years ago and they had minimum staffing and only one line so I get the big laminated card. Send my bag through and the fucking idiots pull it and ask if I have any electronics. I’m like yup. Fucking idiots starry nearly yelling at me that it’s supposed to come out. I reply that I’m precheck and they keep nearly yelling, it doesn’t matter.
That episode made my blood pressure go up a couple points.
After 9/11, I routinely got pulled in for electronics. Trying to explain to a couple of cement head TSA agents the purpose of a radar gun is not enjoyable. In Anchorage, I got put in an interrogation room and was there for an hour...at one point, I was going back and forth trying to decide whom I would call first, my boss or my attorney. Finally, they brought in an FBI guy who had a clue...We got letters to carry from the commissioner's office after about 6 months, with a LEO hotline number...
In the 1990s coming back from France I got taken aside after arriving at Sea-Tac and taken to a room for roughly 45 minutes.
When me and my buddies Xavier et Francis were driving across the border from New York into Quebec at 2AM, we got separated and taken into 3 separate rooms and grilled. The car was searched.
Finally, I have been pulled out of line at airports 5-6 times and had my travel bag emptied and swabbed. I've never been arrested or spent time incarcerated. But I don't know...
They see the shit you post and are making sure you’re not trafficking Indians and Koreans.
You no doubt reported me on their "See Something, Say Something" hotline
SeaTac has some see something, say something PSA that starts with “hey everyone, this is so and so…” but it’s a so and so I’ve never heard of.
I got spoiled with pre-9/11 flights all over the US and Caribbean, where you were fine showing up 20 minutes before your flight and Horizon comp'd you a delicious Turkey & Cran Sandwich with a Red Hook ESB on the flight to Sun Valley.
That's all in the dustbin of history now and everything in the sky is a cattle car with wings.
Fuck the Airlines, Fuck the Airports and Fuck TSA. They're all shit for service of any kind and stuffed full of fat, lazy little dickhead Hitlers who get off on making the experience even more miserable than it is.
There is no more glamour in traveling by air as there once was. It's over.
I got spoiled with pre-9/11 flights all over the US and Caribbean, where you were fine showing up 20 minutes before your flight and Horizon comp'd you a delicious Turkey & Cran Sandwich with a Red Hook ESB on the flight to Sun Valley.
That's all in the dustbin of history now and everything in the sky is a cattle car with wings.
Fuck the Airlines, Fuck the Airports and Fuck TSA. They're all shit for service of any kind and stuffed full of fat, lazy little dickhead Hitlers who get off on making the experience even more miserable than it is.
There is no more glamour in traveling by air as there once was. It's over.
I still enjoy international flights, but the thought of flying domestic makes me cringe and unfortunately I’m going to have to do more of it now since I’m working out of a new brothel. Honestly, I now prefer driving.
I don’t know how you fix things. Most carriers have essentially become flying Greyhound buses. And as @Logistics said, there’s greater market and regulatory forces at play.
I do feel bad for most of the people that work in that industry. The stress and epic bullshit they have to put up with (especially those poor souls manning the customer service desks) is terrible.
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That's all in the dustbin of history now and everything in the sky is a cattle car with wings.
Fuck the Airlines, Fuck the Airports and Fuck TSA. They're all shit for service of any kind and stuffed full of fat, lazy little dickhead Hitlers who get off on making the experience even more miserable than it is.
There is no more glamour in traveling by air as there once was. It's over.
Then generic Muslim terrorists. Gulf War 1 and finally where we are today
I don’t know how you fix things. Most carriers have essentially become flying Greyhound buses. And as @Logistics said, there’s greater market and regulatory forces at play.
I do feel bad for most of the people that work in that industry. The stress and epic bullshit they have to put up with (especially those poor souls manning the customer service desks) is terrible.