Airport suckies...

[draggar]

That title didn't come out right....

I had to pick my wife up at the airport last night, her flight was delayed 45 minutes due to the weather so I sat myself down outside the exit / security area and I'm still amazed at the suckyness and stupididty of some people.

You can't take that on the plane
This person I feel the most sorry for. She worked at the Dunkin Donuts / deli kiosk right outside the terminal. It is outside the security area, so if you buy a bottle of anything, you cannot take it into the terminal with you.

A lady came up, bought 2-3 bottles of something and I overheard the cashier say "Just to let you know, they will not allow you to take this in the terminal" (I've heard her say this many times before with good success and this person had a carry-on with them and came from the ticketing area). SC says 'Yes they will". Back and fourth for a few minutes, finally the cashier says 'fine' and sells her the bottles. Honestly, I feel sorry for this lady, dealing with this all day. I saw her walk down into the security area where she quickly got into an argument with the guards (bad idea). I'm assuing it is over the bottles of juice she just bought. Strange, you can buy bottles of juice when you are IN the terminal, why didn't she wait??

Enter Here and Do Not Enter mean exactly that
Stupid lady decides she doesn't want to wait in the security line, so she decides to head in though the exit of the terminal. BAD IDEA. Sure enough, 2-3 security guards appear and she insists on arguing with them that she flies all the time and never had to go though security before (bullshit). I think the guards threatened her with detaining her, so she stormed off saying 'I"m never flying here again". Good luck with the Miami and West Palm airports, thet're LESS tolerant than they are here in Fort Lauderdale.

Its called a bottleneck
(from my wife)
When you leave the plane, do not stop on the gangway to make sure you have all of your life's belongings. Wait until you are in the terminal and away from the entrance so you don't slow down the other 200-300 people trying to get off the plane. She should have let Egon bite that person.

[SnapAddict218]

Why are people like this? These days flying is stressful for EVERYONE involved. I just dont get it.

[Becks]

she insists on arguing with them that she flies all the time and never had to go though security before (bullshit).

Did she fly in from the past or something?

[auntiem]

I recently got rebooked to an earlier flight and had like 5 min to make it thru security and to my gate sure enough, every idiot and their dog (literally) was in front of me. "we have to take off our shoes?!" "why can't you just hold my coffee while I go thru?" argh!

[Pagan]

Sure enough, 2-3 security guards appear and she insists on arguing with them that she flies all the time and never had to go though security before (bullshit).

Oh, she might fly all the time....just not on a plane!

Honestly, just how big is the rock some of these people have been living under? If you haven't flown in a while and need info, call up TSA or pull up the website! Oops, sorry, that would involve people being logical. Who said the human race was logical?

[tigerlily0]

I recently got rebooked to an earlier flight and had like 5 min to make it thru security and to my gate sure enough, every idiot and their dog (literally) was in front of me. "we have to take off our shoes?!" "why can't you just hold my coffee while I go thru?" argh!

I've seen times at the airport when the security lines were long, they had security people walking between the lines asking people when their flight was leaving, and moving people with flights leaving like in 5 minutes up to the front of the line.

[Banrion]

When I flew through Chicago this summer, I was still a smoker, and I only had a 45 min layover. I asked the security guys before I left the terminal if I would have time to go out for a quick smoke, and they told me just to make sure to come in the 1st class line and explain that my flight was in less than half an hour when I got back. I have to say, I had absolutely 0 trouble with security at all on that trip.

[Spiffy McMoron]

On the flipside, when I went through the airport earlier this week, there was no real problem going through security. I didn't have any liquids in my carry-on (which was the only thing they asked me.) and the biggest thing that I had to do was take my laptop out of my carry-on bag. They didn't ask me to start my laptop or my cell phone, either going to Toronto or leaving it. It was about as painless as possible.

[IT Grunt]

When flying, I have had hardly any trouble with security, pre or post TSA. The only time it took a while was because I forgot to wear my tennis shoes instead of my steel toes when I was flying to another plant. (Safety requirement in all the plants, and I was headed there right after I landed.) Naturally I set the metal detector off. They just whipped out the hand wand and confirmed it was just my steel toes and off I went.

I'm also an amateur radio operator, and there's been times I've taken my FT-817 with me (Very small multi-band radio, perfect for travel.) Never have I been asked to prove it was a radio. The only time it came up was when I had travelled with it once, then took it out but forgot to take out the antenna. It was still in my laptop bag, and on the x-ray it showed up as a long pointed object. Once the TSA guy saw that it was made of flexible soft rubber, he was fine with it and off I went. (At the time, images of me wielding that antenna and shouting 'En garde!' kept me chuckling all the way to the gate. )

[protege]

I haven't flown since the week after 9/11. Seriously. I'd rather drive, or take the train. Something about the sight of armed guards and large German Shepherds in the airport kinda turned me off. Oh, and let's not forget that I got patted down in Albany on the return flight. I was heading up there for a model railroad convention. I wasn't happy about having to get to the airport at 4am, having to wait 2 hours in line for security, and was literally tired as hell when I landed. I got no sleep at all on the plane! But, other than that, I didn't have problems.

[tigerlily0]

I haven't flown since the week after 9/11. Seriously. I'd rather drive, or take the train.

I'm totally the same way. I didn't get on a plane for ages until my father moved across the country and he seemed to want me to visit every so often and driving would take like a week each way. Now that he's not over there any more, I have no intention of getting on a plane ever again, if I can help it, especially now with the current restrictions on what you can take on the plane getting so restrictive and ridiculous.

[BookstoreEscapee]

Stupid lady decides she doesn't want to wait in the security line, so she decides to head in though the exit of the terminal.

Did she wear a Raspberry Beret?


If I were the Dunkin Donuts girl, I wouldn't bother arguing...

-Just so you know, they won't let you take that in the terminal
-Yes they will.
-OK, if you say so ...don't say I didn't warn you.


I haven't flown since July of 2001...haven't had reason to but if/when I do again I will damn sure make sure I know the rules. I saw the best thing for traveling in a magazine the other day, though...Paper Shampoo and Paper Soap...I forget who makes them but they are little sheets in a plastic case, similar to those Listerine breath strips. No bottles!

[Flood]

I have a somewhat middle-eastern sounding (but actually Filipino) last name, but I'm one of the whitest guys you'll ever meet.

I fly a couple times a year, but my most recent trip to California was the first time since 9/11 that I haven't been "randomly" selected for the full pat-down where they dig through your carry-on.

I was so happy. I was doing a little dance through the metal detector.

[tollbaby]

I've only ever flown post 9-11, and I've never had a problem. I've been through Newark, Ottawa, Toronto, Detroit and countless times through O'Hare, and only been randomly searched twice in four years.

I'm almost afraid of my trip to Heathrow in November, because I'm told they're very strict, but I'm a good girl, and I do my research before I leave, so I'm not too worried.

[dendawg]

Did she wear a Raspberry Beret?

The kind you find in a secondhand store?