The only reason I'd fly anywhere anymore would be if it were a family medical emergency or a business trip where I simply could not arrange it into my schedule. Given that I don't travel much anyway, less now... I'd be willing to take a day of vacation each way to drive rather than fly. Given that we allow a day each way for travel anyway... That gives me a two day each way time budget for driving. From where I'm at, I can get just about anywhere I'd need to be for work in 2 days.
So long TSA, airlines, airports, long waits... Hello open road, XM satellite radio, and being able to take along some tools for survival... Master of my own destiny once more.
Damn, I am going to be in such trouble if they get me in the wrong line. I'm not having my eyes X-rayed - along with everything else and, at my great granny age, if someone gropes me, I'll end up slammed on the floor and handcuffed for my response. (They've made it against the law to even voice a complaint to a poor TSA officer as it's ‘upsetting’ to them.
Of course, getting sexually molested isn't upsetting.
What the whole exercise is about is a trial balloon to see how far we will submit to anything - and to get used to so submitting, without a murmur.
And people wonder why the Jews ‘just got on the cattle cars’. I don't think even they were routinely sexually molested in the beginning.
I have not flown since Sept 2001, to my father's funeral, and I'm with you -- I will only fly again for a matter of life and death. I have no intention of being herded defenseless and pawed over and humiliated and treated like a prisoner.