What do you hate most about air travel these days?
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F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...How many of you can say you were detained by the TSA in an interrogation room for an hour while they checked your information out due to being on the terrorist watch list? I mean, other than @PurpleBaze.
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F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...
They were monitoring the TugBleachedAnusDawg said:How many of you can say you were detained by the TSA in an interrogation room for an hour while they checked your information out due to being on the terrorist watch list? I mean, other than @PurpleBaze.
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F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...The "air" part.
Only fly first class. Hawaii and Texas.
Can't stand it.
Won't fly anymore. Just won't. -
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Oh but *I* sound so white and richhaie said:The "air" part.
Only fly first class. Hawaii and Texas.
Can't stand it.
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F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...My only good flying experience was waiting to board in Austin this year and an A&M old, rich and white guy shook my hand about how happy he was that UW beat Texas down and took me out for some beers and talked about all the hate he had in his life for Texas.
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Did he give you a reach around?haie said:My only good flying experience was waiting to board in Austin this year and an A&M old, rich and white guy shook my hand about how happy he was that UW beat Texas down and took me out for some beers and talked about all the hate he had in his life for Texas.
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F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...
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...CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:
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.huskyhooligan said: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.
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.
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I don't hate air travel - it's just not as cool as it used to be. It's still better than driving, though.
A few years ago, we went back to Michigan to visit the in-laws. My wife and kids drove - I flew. It took them almost 40 hours of driving, and took me 6 and a half hours flying, including changing planes in Chicago.
But I didn't have a hot stewardess, they wouldn't let me in the cockpit or give me a set of wings, and they didn't hand out pretzel sticks and Schulers bar cheese - so it wasn't as cool as it used to be.
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.
That kind of fun shit doesn't go on these days, so now I just grab a couple Bloody Marys prior to boarding and then sit down and listen to music so I don't want to murder people.
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Anyone who has never been drunk while teetering in the brink of diabetic coma has never been properly drunk.dflea said:
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.
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We sure got a lot of diabeetus on these boards.chuck said:
Anyone who has never been drunk while teetering in the brink of diabetic coma has never been properly drunk.dflea said:
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.
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