I've always gotten patted down in the airport...chair and metal detectors, you know. ALWAYS a giant deal.
The couple times when I was using a wheelchair when travelling, they really didn't pat me down much at all. It was weird.
Yeah. He's my hero.
Mal ,'The Train Job'
Natter 40: The Nice One
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Dec 02, 2005 8:03:13 am PST #8642 of 10006
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Scrappy - Dec 02, 2005 8:06:57 am PST #8643 of 10006
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I don't think it's the chair--I think Erika has a "Danger to Authority" glint in her eye.
§ ita § - Dec 02, 2005 8:09:10 am PST #8644 of 10006
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I, on the other hand, completely fail to.
Which I'm okay with.
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 02, 2005 8:10:22 am PST #8645 of 10006
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I had a newly-bought box of Kodak film set off the bomb detectors once. No idea what chemical Wal Mart was spraying its racks with to give that kind of a false positive reading.
Sue - Dec 02, 2005 8:12:22 am PST #8646 of 10006
hip deep in pie
The last time I flew they swabbed mt digital camera and iPod at the Halifax airport. It always has the tightest security. Things get checked there that never get checked elsewhere.
sarameg - Dec 02, 2005 8:12:50 am PST #8647 of 10006
Sara, how did you get to see? I'm always curious.
The set up at the Killeen airport made it hard to not see and at BWI when I get through security before my bag. Easy enough to stand off to the side and look over their shoulder.
And if you aren't supposed to be able to do that, well.... there is a reason I don't the rules seriously. So inconsistently applied as to basically render them a joke.
§ ita § - Dec 02, 2005 8:14:53 am PST #8648 of 10006
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Easy enough to stand off to the side and look over their shoulder.
Believe me, I've tried, but the baggage roller thing is so long that you'd need to walk yards at LAX and then back around to see the screens.
Now, if I could travel with someone else in a separate line, maybe we could time it so...but I never fly with other people.
Katie M - Dec 02, 2005 8:15:04 am PST #8649 of 10006
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
Well, when I was in my angry atheist stage in college, I was part of an atheist group that did stuff you could call "evangelising." Nothing as wacky as this, though.
Yeah, I skipped the angry atheist stage. Grew up Methodist. It's just tough to work up a head of steam over nice northeastern liberal Methodists, you know?
Scrappy - Dec 02, 2005 8:17:41 am PST #8650 of 10006
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
At Schipol in Amsterdam, they opened my bag and went through it carefully and then x-rayed it and then sat down an interviewed me. They were doing that with everyone, but they were such cute, polite, earnest Dutch fellows that I found it adorable rather than irritating.
wishbone - Dec 02, 2005 8:26:12 am PST #8651 of 10006
"Heere's Cordy! nudge wink
Hi. Beautiful morning today in the Bay Area after a messy, sloppy and wet early evening.