08/07/2002 Archived Entry: "Airport Rant"

Here's one, Female travelers object to N.C. airport search. Now, that's not my complaint, unless we want to consider ankles as terrain for groping. In Portland, after already been told to put my pocket belongings aside on the ground (wtf is that about?), the guard felt down so hard and tight on my pant-legs that I had to pull them back up, along with my socks. The worst part is taking off your shoes, which appears to happen once out of every three times for me. In Chicago, I wanted to lay into the guard who asked me to "slip off your shoes." No, they don't slip off, I have to stoop, untie them, and pull them off first, in order for you to sniff them... all because of one dufus that put a bomb in his shoes leaving from France, ode to the butterfly wing's.