Quote Originally Posted by Freedomlover View Post
Back in '06 I had a nasty experience at the Asheville airport. Now I show up in cotton shorts and a tee shirt. No metal on me at all. After waltzing through security I head straight for the men's room and get properly dressed. Evidently you can carry a kilt outfit through security without problem or comment, but actually wearing one is another matter.
I had to stop at the Asheville airport in Nov 2001 to exchange a rented car which was giving me trouble. Coming from NYC and having experienced the destruction of the WTC firsthand, the degree of security struck me as mindboggling, given what to me was a very out of the way locale. It seemed that there was a whole troop of machine-gun bearing soldiers on duty there.

The priest who was riding with me wasn't even allowed to stay in the car and enter the airport grounds with me. He had to wait at the entrance to the airport grounds till the exchange was complete and I could pick him up on the way out.