I’ve been lurking here since the Clinton days. To prove it, I predict that several people will point out that I just signed up today, others will say that I’m a DU troll, and I will probably be accused of a double post as well.
Anyway, after reading this article, I had to tell of my travel experience this weekend. I was flying from Knoxville TN to Dallas TX. I realize that Knoxville is not a huge city, but there was only 1 TSA agent and 1 x-ray machine/scanner for all departing passengers. When I got there, there were about 30 people in line in front of me and it was taking at least 1 minute per person. So it took over 30 minutes for me to get to the front of the line.
I had a baseball cap on when I went through the scanning machine, and of course the hat got flagged. Believe me, by this time I was in a pretty bad mood. The TSA agent told me to take off my hat. As he was squeezing my hat he said, “You don’t have any guns or knives hidden in here do you?”, as he chuckled. I snatched the hat out of his hands and said “Hell no!” Then I said “If I had made a wisecrack like that, you would have had my face on the floor with a gun to my head! It’s a good thing we don’t all have to live by the same rules.”
He was pretty much speechless at that point and had a confused look on his face as I walked away. Anyway, I got a small amount of satisfaction from the exchange.
That’s all I have to say, but to prove that I’ve been lurking here for years, I’m sure a grammar/spelling nazi will point out my errors, and several people will complain about my formatting or lack thereof.
No, seriously, neat story. Glad you got through the checkpoint and got satisfaction. :)