So, tomorrow...

[jsbowden]

Tomorrow evening, I get to deal with the TSA. I have no doubt that their 'random' search will once again involve me getting half naked in an airport because I refuse to fly in a fucking suit. I wish, just once, I could tell those fuckers to piss off. But no, not in America, land of the free. It'd be a short trip to a holding room, and probably cost me my clearance in the long run.

Hey, assholes, I have been more thoroughly investigated than ANY of YOU fuckers standing around the metal detector have, I have access to shit that would scare the living fuck out of you, and I am more trustworthy than any of you. Why the fuck am I the one who gets hassled by you minimum wage pricks as a matter of course? And why do we put up with this shit?

On that note, I'll be spending the next four days in the desert in the land of The Governator.

Hopefully, when they search my luggage, they won't steal my socks.

Comments

[paoconnell.livejournal.com]

I don't even own a suit. I typically fly in jeans, a regular jacket if needed, and a collared shirt, and am never hassled. I do avoid keeping pocketknives and other no-nos in my pockets or in carry on.
Note: they have no idea if you're cleared or not, and aren't paid enough to know or care.

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

I know they don't know. I object to being treated like a criminal by default for simply dressing in black.

I NEVER get on a plane without being searched and wanded at least twice. But the process is random, they swear.

[turnberryknkn.livejournal.com]

Hm. Given how utterly absurd our security theatre is, I wonder if somehow you managed the seemingly logically impossible combination of being cleared by one government agency at an extremely high level of security, and at the same time managed to end up on some kind of TSA list? I wouldn't put it past the "interdeparmental communication? What interdepartmental communication" mess we call Homeland Security...

[paoconnell.livejournal.com]

'Cos bad guys always wear black, y'know. Nevermind that the 911 boys all wore white, as did Richard whasshisface the match bomber.

[zuvembi.livejournal.com]

You poor bastard. I wear my standard black t-shirt, cargo shorts and have bag contents like this:



(Yes that's a Sturmey Archer 3 speed hub - heavy as sin and twice as suspicious looking).

I still get minimal hassle from the TSA drones.

Maybe you need a shirt like this: