People Tempting the Fates I
Heard while going through the security line in
Woman behind us in line, when told she wasn't allowed to put laptop through X-ray while still in bag. Big duffle type bag, not new airport security friendly type bag.
Woman: "So, I've been doing this the same way all over the world and no one has ever told me I couldn't leave it in the bag."
TSA Agent: "No ma'am, laptops are supposed to be put through separately."
Woman: "So, everyone else in the world is wrong and only you guys are right?"
Exasperated TSA Agent: "I'm sorry ma'am, I can't vouch for the rest of the world, but that's the way it is here and always has been."
At this point both Mary and I were thinking the next thing out of the TSA agent's mouth was going to be "Well, I guess we'll now have to do a thoroughly efficient cavity search".
Now, I'm as unhappy with the whole security routine as the next guy but, you know, there's some times when the smart thing to do in a situation like this is grin and bear it. The woman spent more time arguing with the agents then it would have taken to just take the laptop out of the bag and let them run it through again. And finally, really? In all your travels around the world, not once has anyone told you to take the laptop out of the bag? I find it somewhat harder to believe this than say, claims that the Illuminati are out to create a New World Order and incidentally, outlaw the sale of pork rinds. Because they can - they're a secret society, man!
