Non Kilted Airport Fun

[GoodGirlGonePlaid]

Cheese? A soap menagerie? Flamboyant choices in handbags? Dice humor?
Mickey, you are so my people!

Great stor(ies)!!!

My TSA experience in January:
Well, I like to experiment with hair dye and hair cuts so I don't look much like my drivers license, which started the red flag.
Then my travel companion Julie had some sort of internal implant that set off the machine.
I didn't pack my liquids correctly, bag searched, then I did. NOW I understand why they offer the private room for the pat down. It was a groping that would have gone beyond any of the kilt checks from that earlier post. Afterward, I had a martini while basking in the afterglow (granted, I would have had one anyway, but I digress).
Anywho, flying, good times!

[rondo]

I don't fly anymore...IMHO the TSA is out of control. Terrorism is an excuse to fan the flame and fear and fear is a tool to limit freedom. If you fear [the terrorist, or the government]...they, the terrorist/government, win... end of story. Since I don't have to fly, I won't. I choose not to live in fear either of terrorist or government.
Rondo

[Mickey]

Paul, thanks a lot! Looking forward to playing with the recipe!

I"m laughing so hard that the neighbors are going to wonder what's going on.

Glad I could add some joy to your cranky life, sir. LOL j/k of course

Sir, you are not the wind beneath my wings, but you are my anti-gravity boots.

Thanks for almost getting my butt chewed in a meeting.
Tyler

I'll always be the one to leave you hanging there upside down And Xmarking during a meeting? Sounds like a combination of:

1) A big set of brass ones
2) An especially boring meeting
3) The sign of a superior, multitasking mind
4) Weak IT screening

LOL

Cheese? A soap menagerie? Flamboyant choices in handbags? Dice humor?
Mickey, you are so my people!

NOW I understand why they offer the private room for the pat down. It was a groping that would have gone beyond any of the kilt checks from that earlier post. Afterward, I had a martini while basking in the afterglow (granted, I would have had one anyway, but I digress).
Anywho, flying, good times!

I am the salt of the earth, GGGP... just a rep of the average jo But hey.. How YOU Doin???

I've always felt that there would be a lot less trouble during the pat downs if they gave us travelers the right to choose WHO gets to pat us down. Line them up with all sorts of options, cathouse style, and let us decide who gets to grope us. There would be much more happiness I think. Though it sounds like you got a good one

I don't fly anymore...IMHO the TSA is out of control.
Rondo

This was the first time I've flown since 2000. I even grew a protest beard over it. I traveled too much in my previous job and grew to hate it. I don't mind the security too much, though I can see where some might have their feelings hurt. Fun Fact! Those full body scanners? Those were being used in the early 90s. The difference is, nobody knew about them as they were installed in very odd places. Problem with airport security these days is the lack of logic. They confiscate my nail clippers but let me have a dozen sharpened pencils.....

It is what it is. All you can do is try to have fun with it

[sydnie7]

Hey, TSA lets me carry on a full dozen, metal, double-pointed knitting needles. But when I forgot to take my pedometer off my waistband before stepping into the scanner -- hooooooo boy!!

[Mickey]

Hey, TSA lets me carry on a full dozen, metal, double-pointed knitting needles. But when I forgot to take my pedometer off my waistband before stepping into the scanner -- hooooooo boy!!

I know, right?! They told me to remove EVERYTHING from my pockets. I left a dollar bill in one just to see if they would catch it/be a PITA. They caught it and gave me a bit of a dressing down. It annoys people who try to dress you down while you grin at them.

I put my shoes on top of my laptop too, in the bin, clearly defying the posted sign. They yelled at me for that, complaining that they had to re scan all my stuff. My shrug annoyed them to no end.

This was all before the bag inspection. What the heck. I had 3 hours to kill.

[GoodGirlGonePlaid]

Lol! Oh my goodness, thumbs up for How You Doin!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc2Z7...e_gdata_player

So how did the bag go over at home?

When I told my friend about my TSA experience he said,"uh, what in the worl terrorist organization did they think you were with, the IRA?"

[Mickey]

Lol! Oh my goodness, thumbs up for How You Doin!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc2Z7...e_gdata_player

So how did the bag go over at home?

When I told my friend about my TSA experience he said,"uh, what in the worl terrorist organization did they think you were with, the IRA?"

HAHAHA... Wasn't a doubt in my mind that you'd get that line

Daughter couldn't care less about the bag, but the wife and son loved the idea of me wearing it. Currently it leans against the cat scratching post as a memorial to yet another episode of me on travel. I don't remember ever not having a story to tell when I got back from a trip.

Your friend is right. I've seen pics of you. The IRA no.. a small explosive device the IRA might use, however... that's a different story. hahahah

[LitTrog]

I'll always be the one to leave you hanging there upside down And Xmarking during a meeting? Sounds like a combination of:

1) A big set of brass ones
2) An especially boring meeting
3) The sign of a superior, multitasking mind
4) Weak IT screening

None of those. It was

5) Dumb-poopery

I was simply using my phone to check X-marks while walking to the conference room. I saw a this weeks-old thread from you that I had somehow missed previously, so I sat down, put the phone between my thighs and started reading. Now, keep in mind that once a month, the meat of our technical meetings are prefaced by one of those cool safety videos; yesterday's was all about forklifts (I think the title was "Watch What You're Forking Doing!"). Since many of my colleagues are from South Korea, there are very few forks in the building, and none of those have wheels or a load capacity greater than 18oz. I thought I was okay to be distracted.

However, you must picture what I looked like at this point: Sitting, eyes fixated on my lap, my right arm slightly moving back-and-forth as I scroll the touchscreen, shoulders shaking. I think the boss-man was actually relieved to discover that I was playing with my phone. If you can believe it, I've developed a reputation at work as a good-hearted but slightly odd man. Tyler doing something verboten but actually rational tends to be a pleasant surprise for my overseers.

[kallen]

Myself and 3 others picked Robert O'Reilly up from the Baton Rouge, LA airport back in 2007. Woopie doo you think. Well...since O'Reilly is noted for playing Gowron, Chancellor of the Klingon Empire in Star Trek:TNG and DS9 we picked him up in full Klingon costume.

4 Klingons walking through an airport to pick up an actor.

Believe it or not....NOT one single TSA, Police, Security came up to us AT ALL. Nobody, Nada, Nill

We didn't go into the gates, but still 4 Klingons waiting for about an hour, in full uniform...and NOBODY messed with us.

Sooooo...when you travel, travel w/ Klingons!!!

[Dixiecat]

Myself and 3 others picked Robert O'Reilly up from the Baton Rouge, LA airport back in 2007. Woopie doo you think. Well...since O'Reilly is noted for playing Gowron, Chancellor of the Klingon Empire in Star Trek:TNG and DS9 we picked him up in full Klingon costume.

4 Klingons walking through an airport to pick up an actor.

Believe it or not....NOT one single TSA, Police, Security came up to us AT ALL. Nobody, Nada, Nill

We didn't go into the gates, but still 4 Klingons waiting for about an hour, in full uniform...and NOBODY messed with us.

Sooooo...when you travel, travel w/ Klingons!!!

Gawd! I loved Gowron until he went all super Klingon. I have the Star Trek Board Game assisted via Video. Robert is the character that does all the video sequences. LOVE!

You people think the TSA has gone all power hungry? T'ain't nuttin when compared to the CATSA. I think that they're harder on us so that they can show the TSA that no threat is gonna come from Canada. I mean they check boarding pass before AND after going through the scanner, along with your ID. Srsly, how much trouble can you get in walking 10ft while in full view of the agents as you go through a metal detector? And then, you can't get on a plane unless you show your ID along with your boarding pass.

I'm surprised I don't have many security stories given the amount that I travel in the US. Of course, I don't travel with cheese....