Since I suspect many of you will be hopping on an airplane within the next few days, here is an article from Yahoo Finance titled 10 Biggest Bonehead Moves at Airport Security.  It is a funny article especially if you have been caught in one of these scenarios.  I usually cause one of these scenarios:

4.) Sporting Lace-Ups When Loafers Will Do

You don’t need to wear your father’s slippers, but you shouldn’t wear his army boots either. Nowadays, everyone — and that means you, Your Honor — has to take off their shoes for X-ray inspection. So wear shoes that can be easily put on and taken off. And if you don’t want to walk through the security area in bare feet, wear socks. Clean socks. Socks with no holes.

9.) Being Unprepared for a Patdown

Not everyone gets patted down, but if you’re selected for the extra security screening, it can be a little creepy.

Patdown searches are supposed to be done by someone of the same gender “except in extraordinary circumstances,” the TSA says, and you can request to be taken into a private area for the procedure if you prefer.

Number 9 hurts.  Although I consider myself to have cherub-like innocence as pure as the wind-driven snow, I get patted down every stinking time at the security checkpoint.  My wife laughs at me and Lee mocks me, but it is like clockwork.

I was in San Francisco’s airport at 1:00am catching the red eye back to Minneapolis.  Only 2 other people in line and I’m pulled off to the side for the wand inspection.

Another time I was at Gatwick airport in London and I can tell you this – the British do a complete frisk of all areas.  So if you are traveling via airplane this Christmas weekend, I strongly encourage you to read the article beforehand.

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