Fuffy ,'Storyteller'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Or at least some airports had Experienced Traveler lanes. Not sure if those exist anymore since I have pre-check now.
The Raleigh-Durham airport had those. I don't remember seeing them last month, though. I don't know what happened to them. But if someone told me that the clueless ignored the signs and just went into the fast-moving lines, only to clog them up by arguing for half an hour about taking their Big Gulps on through, thus rendering them moot, I would believe it. Because people.
One almost has to envy them their transcendent self-confidence that trumps instructions and established procedures. "Well, that doesn't apply to ME!"
Almost.
If they're behind you it can be amusing; if they're in front of you ... stabbity stabbity stabbity
There are, or were for a while. Or at least some airports had Experienced Traveler lanes. Not sure if those exist anymore since I have pre-check now. (And you STILL get some tools not sure why they can't bring their bottle of water through.)
My (least) favorite is the people who are all excited to get precheck and go through a metal detector instead of the scanner...but then are shocked when the cellphone in their pocket sets off the metal detector. Seriously?
For one flight, I was behind a woman who seemed completely oblivious to all the security requirements. Kept her shoes on, kept her coat on, had a laptop in her carryon ... held up the entire line while she took off the coat and shoes, pulled out the laptop and turned it on, and then had to arrange everything JUST SO with each item in its own box/tray. Meanwhile, the entire line is backing up ... and she's trying to juggle more of those box/tray things than she can handle (didn't think of stacking them and then laying them out for the scanner).
A student at Brigham Young University had a fire in his apartment. His roommates helped him put it out. They noticed a lab type setup in the room. The student left the apartment, the roommates wondered about it for a bit, then called apartment management, who called the cops. Cops determine it was a meth lab.
Today the student showed up, his lawyer said "No, no, he wasn't on the run, the Veterans Day holiday screwed things up. And that lab was for making soap!"
The cops response is perfect:
"What gives this away that it was a meth lab is the fact it's a meth lab," said Provo Police Sgt. Brandon Post.
Dumb BYU student. Sad.
Thing I learned on my last trip is that (at least at SFO) you can put other stuff in the tray with your laptop as long as nothing is on top of the laptop. Helped me go from 3 trays to 2.
I had nothing to do this afternoon so I should have asked to leave early. Instead I read a half-dozen articles on "Too Many Cooks."
The article in Tom's link now says: Original version published on 12 July 2014 has been replaced due to inclusion of an author's note not intended for publication.