Except Walmart with its 33 check out lanes and 5 regular and one express lane open.
A line forming at each of the open registers is not a reason to open another line. It's a reason for one of them to turn of the light and go on break.
Not just “Thousands Standing Around”, but most of them are “Too Stupid for Arby’s”
I have been working in various security positions in the military/police and security worlds for over 35 years and have never seen a more overbearing, incompetent group of mouth breathing idiots
They make me wish idiocy and ignorance was painful so we could all watch them writhe in agony in the pretty blue sacks that contain their stupid.
Too bad we are living in a platinum world....
And as everyone is doing all this flying around, just think, an illegal alien transported by DHS might have been on the last flight with various diseases including scabies with the mites having a party in the cushion you are sitting on.
At first, I mistook the author for Cleon Skousen. He was the author several conservative books. Wikipedia says he died in 2006. RIP.
This is more about selling gold than the TSA.
This is so true. I was meeting an arival at the Cleveland Airport one day a couple weekends ago. Just an ordinary afternoon with light traffic, but at least twelve (12) TSA agents wandering around. Two were episodically engaged in screening the occasional departure. The rest I swear were walking around in large lazy circles trying to look busy, sometimes stopping to chat with colleagues. Nothing was being done. Nothing. But the smell of burning tax dollars was unmistakeable.
So, how much better do you think they will be after they unionize?
OH...
WAIT.....
Has anybody ever missed a flight due to the lines at TSA security? I don't think so. TSA employees will thoughtfully bring people to the front who need to board flights that are about to immediately depart, even though those passengers had the discourtesy to arrive late and inconvenienced other passengers who had the foresight to arrive early.
I am a frequent traveller and whenever I arrive, the TSA employees are always beaming and happy to see me. I don't know what it is but maybe it's because I'm usually wearing a business suit and have a positive, clean-cut appearance. As opposed to those who show up in ratty shorts, slippers, bed hair, and a bad attitude. Sometimes I look like Don Draper and I think the TSA people appreciate that.
Never had a hassle going through TSA so I don't know what all the fuss it about. Sometimes they will wave a wand over me but that doesn't bug me at all. Usually I'll use this occasion to crack a joke, such as "if you find anything valuable in there, let me know" and it gets them laughing every time.
I'm thinking if you go into the TSA line dressed like a slob and displaying a less than optimum attitude, you are going to get hassled a bit. To those people, I say get a haircut, put on some decent clothes and put a smile on your face.
I remember while in the Navy in the late 70's going through a walk through metal scan and if it sounded getting the wand. The lines moved fast. Domestic attacks via plane were considered a possible threat even during WW2. Up stream of the Manhattan Project at Norris dam were gun placements.
TSA is an abandonment of common sense and a total surrendering of rights and dignity for a false sense of security. If the State Department, Immigration Services, and Intel services, had been doing their job the 9/11 attack would not have happened. Red Flags were everywhere. Political Correctness in our government agencies caused those flags to be ignored.
My last plane ride and I do mean it was my last was back in 1984 onboard a military cargo plane returning from Ft Pickett on a weekend Bivouac for cannon live fire training. I have no reason to fly and if I want to go anywhere requiring an ocean crossing I'll book a room on a freighter or a cruise liner. Otherwise I'll drive but I will not fly. TSA and the airlines have made it as painstakingly difficult as possible.