{"id":1349,"date":"2007-12-21T07:30:46","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T13:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/12\/top-10-travel-blunders\/"},"modified":"2007-12-21T06:03:37","modified_gmt":"2007-12-21T12:03:37","slug":"top-10-travel-blunders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/12\/top-10-travel-blunders\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Travel Blunders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/family-home\/article\/104061\/10-Biggest-Bonehead-Moves-at-Airport-Security\">10 Biggest Bonehead Moves at Airport Security<\/a>.\u00a0 It is a funny article especially if you have been caught in one of these scenarios.\u00a0 I usually cause one of these scenarios:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>4.) <strong>Sporting Lace-Ups When Loafers Will Do<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t need to wear your father&#8217;s slippers, but you shouldn&#8217;t wear his army boots either. Nowadays, everyone &#8212; and that means you, Your Honor &#8212; 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&#8217;t want to walk through the security area in bare feet, wear socks. Clean socks. Socks with no holes.<\/p>\n<p>9.) <strong>Being Unprepared for a Patdown<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Not everyone gets patted down, but if you&#8217;re selected for the extra security screening, it can be a little creepy.<\/p>\n<p>Patdown searches are supposed to be done by someone of the same gender &#8220;except in extraordinary circumstances,&#8221; the TSA says, and you can request to be taken into a private area for the procedure if you prefer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Number 9 hurts.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 My wife laughs at me and Lee mocks me, but it is like clockwork.<\/p>\n<p>I was in San Francisco&#8217;s airport at 1:00am catching the red eye back to Minneapolis.\u00a0 Only 2 other people in line and I&#8217;m pulled off to the side for the wand inspection.<\/p>\n<p>Another time I was at Gatwick airport in London and I can tell you this &#8211; the British do a <em>complete<\/em> frisk of <em>all<\/em> areas.\u00a0 So if you are traveling via airplane this Christmas weekend, I strongly encourage you to read the article beforehand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.\u00a0 It is a funny article especially if you have been caught in one of these scenarios.\u00a0 I usually cause one of these scenarios: 4.) Sporting Lace-Ups When Loafers Will Do You don&#8217;t need to wear your father&#8217;s slippers, but you shouldn&#8217;t wear his army boots either. Nowadays, everyone &#8212; and that means you, Your Honor &#8212; has to take off their shoes for X-ray inspection. So wear shoes that can be easily put on and taken off. And&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/12\/top-10-travel-blunders\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[163,162],"class_list":["post-1349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anecdotes","tag-airport-security","tag-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-lL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1070,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/07\/what-not-to-wear\/","url_meta":{"origin":1349,"position":0},"title":"What Not To Wear","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"July 14, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"As my wife will gladly attest, I am NO slave to fashion.\u00a0 In fact, if they made Garanimals for adults, I would buy them.\u00a0 So my interest was mildly piqued in CareerJournal.com's What to Wear to the Office Where Suits Aren't the Norm.\u00a0 Some fashion advice for us guys: Casual\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1377,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/01\/dressed-for-success\/","url_meta":{"origin":1349,"position":1},"title":"Dressed For Success","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"January 14, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm no slave to fashion so this CareerJournal article - Aspire to Become a CEO? 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To be clear, he is all for safe airline travel and even goes so far as to thank the screeners when he gets plucked from the line for an additional screening.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Anecdotes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Anecdotes","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/anecdotes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1658,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/07\/generational-differences-dressing-like-murphy-brown\/","url_meta":{"origin":1349,"position":3},"title":"Generational Differences-Dressing Like Murphy Brown","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"July 14, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Funny article here from BusinessWeek.com titled Office Wear: A Tale of Two Generations.\u00a0 There is a definite clash of generations when it comes to business attire, especially among women.\u00a0 This article provides a discussion from both the Baby Boomer perspective and the Millennial perspective. Some pull quotes: It's no wonder\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Generations&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Generations","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/generations\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1446,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/02\/what-color-is-your-power-suit\/","url_meta":{"origin":1349,"position":4},"title":"What Color Is Your Power Suit?","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"February 29, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Navy blue hopefully.\u00a0 I say that with confidence based on this article from Selling Power - Design Your Image of Success.\u00a0 From the article (my editing): While good posture, eye contact, and direct, well-modulated speaking voice have long been deemed important in sales, only in recent years has dress come\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Communication&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Communication","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/communication\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2468,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2011\/01\/interview-question-psychosis\/","url_meta":{"origin":1349,"position":5},"title":"Interview Question Psychosis","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"January 11, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Let me be honest, I have sat in on some interviews that were borderline psychotic.\u00a0 Questions from left field, overt anger and emotions, lying responses that were easily observed\u2026and those were the good ones.\u00a0 In all seriousness, interviewing is difficult and being a good interviewer is even more challenging.\u00a0 Most\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Anecdotes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Anecdotes","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/anecdotes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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