Posts Tagged ‘airport security’

So, you’re packing your suitcase … toothbrush CHECK, Playboy CHECK, Tiger HUH? What is this guy thinking? You can’t even take water through security and he thinks Tony the Tiger will slip right through.  Hey, relax, it was drugged… FOR NOW!  What about when it wakes up and wants his peanuts? Or wants to watch a [...]

It seems that TSAs answer to increasing the publics’ confidence in their screeners, and beef-up their perceived authority, is to give them bigger fake badges that look more like the police. I can’t help picturing the big cartoon-size sheriff’s badges we played with as kids. Now how am I supposed to keep a straight face [...]

I was on a flight last week from LA to JFK when I noticed my seatmate downing more than her share of red wine.  I was busy playing games on my iPhone and had it charging in the seat charger.  When I got up to go to the restroom the drunken seatmate knocked over my [...]

This is the same guy who walks the wrong way through security and shuts down terminals. He’s a moron who is either unbelievably self-absorbed, or unbelievably stuipid. Who doesn’t know not to smoke on a plane? Can’t he just get drunk and pass out like the rest of us and not cause so much trouble? Perhaps [...]

“There are only two reasons to sit in the back row of an airplane.  Either you have diarrhea or you’re anxious to meet people who do.” –       Henry Kissinger This stage is a bit like going on a blind date. Who will my seatmate be? Will he be handsome, will he be rich? Will she [...]

Who puts eighteen monkeys in their pants and goes anywhere? This guy packed his toothbrush, socks, shoes, and, oh yeah, EIGHTEEN MONKEYS, and got on a plane from Peru to Mexico. Did he have time to remember the bananas while he was cramming the critters in his underwear? This is the guy who always gets the seat [...]

An Air France flight attendant was recently arrested for fleecing her sleeping passengers. Damn!  I was hoping she had been arrested for having a bad ’70s hairdo and enough bracelets to put the plane over the weight limit. There are so many better reasons to arrest one of those cranky, recently exhumed flight attendants. How [...]

Being a crabby flyer like myself, it’s never good to see a headline with the words airport and snafu together. It just doesn’t have the same feel as, oh let’s say, vodka and tonic. With the exception of the JFK runway construction snafu, I’ve managed to dodge most of these.  And you? Full List – Brief History [...]

Finally, the ability to fly without interacting with idiots. I love it. I definitely need to get one of these car-planes and avoid the commercial air terminals and their teeming masses of morons. Just under $200,000 – okay, I’ll get a night job – but what a pay off. Coming to an idiot free fly [...]

Seems tests are being conducted in the UK to spy on airline passengers. Trust me, they’re not that interesting … annoying, but not so interesting. I’ve done my share of spying on fellow passengers and nobody is saying anything important.  Although you gotta love a good old boy, tractor salesman frequent flyer seatmate, who wants to share [...]