gotwoody ([info]gotwoody) wrote,
@ 2008-04-26 05:26:00
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Airport Roadblocks
Why can't everyone be as efficient as I am at getting through security in an airport?

I mean, really: Put all your metal shit in your carry-on. Get rid of those ridiculous industrial chain necklaces.
Is it that difficult to have your laptop out of your luggage before you get to the counter? Take it out while waiting. Put your belt in your carry-on while in the line. Or, better yet, put it in the carry-on when you are at home, then put it on after clearing security.

Greater than 20-minute wait lines (Orlando MCO, London LHR) are only the result of incompetent travelers who shouldn't be allowed to fly. There should be a special line that routes them back out to the parking lot.

Or better yet, a line for those who have a clue. For those who have their liquids & gels in a 1L ziplock bag, who have their belt in their carry-on (coins & cell too!), and who have that baggie in one hand with their laptop (out of it's case) in the other. For me, basically.

I want my own line at the airport security gate.


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[info]nihilicious
2008-04-27 07:00 pm UTC (link)
CONCURRENCE

Also--don't wear clothes or shoes with metal in them. That makes you a terrorist.

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[info]gotwoody
2008-04-27 11:38 pm UTC (link)
I suppose I'll let you apply to share my private line, yes.

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[info]crystaldoll86
2008-04-28 12:08 pm UTC (link)
omgosh i totally agree with u! i can't stand it when idiots are waiting in that 20min line and it never occurs to them that they should just get their stuff out and be prepared before they get up there...but oh no they stand there idle, staring at the effing ground and then get to the metal detectors and realize "hey i gotta take my metal stuff out" and does it really take 10mins to get your laptop out? i mean how hard is it to pull the freakin thing out? geez! i ma with u a hundred percent on this one woody...oh and i miss u...hope you're well darling!

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[info]gotwoody
2008-04-28 12:41 pm UTC (link)
Lemmings, really.

Apparently some airports in the US now have lines identified with signage for "Experienced Travellers", "Families" and "Inexperienced Travellers".

Experienced Travellers being the fast-queue, laptops out.

I've also learned, since posting my original topic, that if you get picked for the total see-through body-scan (big enclosed machine with the fans) that you get to jump the other lines and that one is always shorter, so, sure, people get to see you naked, but you also get ushered through, so it's not all without compensation.

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[info]crystaldoll86
2008-04-28 01:00 pm UTC (link)
ok i definitely haven't seen those signs however i would not object to jumping ahead at the expense of showing some skin..it seems like a small sacrifice in comparison because time is money and i def don't have the patience to deal with idiots in the lines...i almost missed my last flight because i had to wait behind these people who had never flown before in their lives..granted i was in arkansas so i shouldn't have really expected much from them but still..gosh

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[info]crystaldoll86
2008-04-28 01:04 pm UTC (link)
hey i know u are a genius so can you tell me how to find an instructor code for a book online so i can get the test bank??? the website is mhhe.com/rourke11 and there is a student login and an instructor login if there is some way to infiltrate the system please email me...crysfisher@gmail.com

thank u!!!!!

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[info]gotwoody
2008-04-28 06:56 pm UTC (link)
To get the instructor code, you contact the published and tell them you're an instructor and what school you're at, you disucss your use of their courseware in your course and that you're going to have students buy the books so they all get student logins to use the material, and then they give you an instructor log-in.

In otherwords... more study, less LJ for now. ;)

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