What do you hate most about air travel these days?
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F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...Cash my inversely correlate to misery in general, but it's way more pronounced with air travel. I hate airports and flying more than almost anything. Truly a miserable way to spend half your day.
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F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...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.
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F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...I'm not picking on you @whlinder, because quite a few people use the term "rollerboard". It's actually rollaboard.
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TurbulencePurpleBaze said:
I'm not picking on you @whlinder, because quite a few people use the term "rollerboard". It's actually rollaboard.
Had to get that off my chest. Now, I can sleep at night.
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Yeah, fuck dogs on planes other than a REAL service animal. If you need an emotional support dog to leave the house then stay home.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.
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F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...Pets don’t belong on planes unless you’re blind. I can maybe make a case for our veterans but if you dyed your hair blue… ok I’ve made my point… TITTT!
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Carry on luggage / overhead bin shit showsToss up on the carryon luggage nonsense. The Throbber is a fashionista and needs more than one little bag for his apparel.
But the biggest fuck you is for the assholes who have no fucking idea on how to disembark. It’s like a wedding or a funeral, you fucking idiots. Don't dash out in front of the bride. Go row by row. Wait your goddamned turn.
The Throbber has put more than a few elbows into the chests of line jumpers.
That and the jackwads who crowd around the luggage carousel. GTFO of the way so other people can get their bags.
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@MrsSnow legit threw a fucking D1 4/5 spot elbow into IU getting off the plane in Incheon on a connection for our Honeymoon.PurpleThrobber said:Toss up on the carryon luggage nonsense. The Throbber is a fashionista and needs more than one little bag for his apparel.
But the biggest fuck you is for the assholes who have no fucking idea on how to disembark. It’s like a wedding or a funeral, you fucking idiots. Don't dash out in front of the bride. Go row by row. Wait your goddamned turn.
The Throbber has put more than a few elbows into the chests of line jumpers.
That and the jackwads who crowd around the luggage carousel. GTFO of the way so other people can get their bags.
@DerekJohnson the view afterwards
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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.
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White Wakanda International Airport works in the similar fashion @CFetters_Nacho_Lover - i.e., one line, but placard to indicate you don't need to remove shoes and laptops.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.
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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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Mine isn't the old and fat kind of diabeetus, but still.YellowSnow said:
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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Mine is, though I've never been fat and I've had it since well before I got old.. It's a gift my dad's side of the family shared. Drinking doesn't usually throw me off much but I had a couple of incidents where it did. Weed is much safer but then I have that sweet tooth...dflea said:
Mine isn't the old and fat kind of diabeetus, but still.YellowSnow said:
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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Bummer. But there are worse things we could have to deal with. I only got the bg out of whack back then because I had no idea what my bg was at any given time - and Grasshoppers are loaded with carbs. You pissed on a stick back then - and that told you what your bg was hours ago. Completely useless for managing diabetes, but that's all there was. Not just that, I took one shot a day and that was supposed to control your bg all day.chuck said:
Mine is, though I've never been fat and I've had it since well before I got old.. It's a gift my dad's side of the family shared. Drinking doesn't usually throw me off much but I had a couple of incidents where it did. Weed is much safer but then I have that sweet tooth...dflea said:
Mine isn't the old and fat kind of diabeetus, but still.YellowSnow said:
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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Now I have a nifty CGM, so I know what my bg is all the time, and I take about 6 shots a day. I can pretty much eat or drink what I want and adjust the amount of fast-acting insulin I take and keep myself dialed in most of the time. A complete game-changer - and now I have my a1c hemoglobin in the 5.7-6.2 range without tweaking out with low bg all the time. High bg will kill you - but low bg will kill you today.
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F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...
At 8 years old you knew how to mix a grasshopper and were getting drunk!? At 8 years old, my kids couldn't boil macaroni.dflea said: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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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.Fishpo31 said:
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.
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... -
F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...
Obviously, they've heard of Derek Johnson and his crew.DerekJohnson said:
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.Fishpo31 said:
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.
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... -
F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...
A good friend, also a Johnson, has a son that is on the no-fly list (in name only), and has been since he was 10 years old…after several years, I think they got it figured out, but my buddy got very close to being arrested several times when the boy got repeatedly flagged and pulled in…PurpleBaze said:
Obviously, they've heard of Derek Johnson and his crew.DerekJohnson said:
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.Fishpo31 said:
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.
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...
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Hardy har harPurpleBaze said:
Obviously, they've heard of Derek Johnson and his crew.DerekJohnson said:
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.Fishpo31 said:
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.
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... -
Uncomfortable seats
They see the shit you post and are making sure you’re not trafficking Indians and Koreans.DerekJohnson said:
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.Fishpo31 said:
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.
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... -
Fat people seated next to you
The no fly list is an affront to liberty and due process.Fishpo31 said:
A good friend, also a Johnson, has a son that is on the no-fly list (in name only), and has been since he was 10 years old…after several years, I think they got it figured out, but my buddy got very close to being arrested several times when the boy got repeatedly flagged and pulled in…PurpleBaze said:
Obviously, they've heard of Derek Johnson and his crew.DerekJohnson said:
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.Fishpo31 said:
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.
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...
