What do you hate most about air travel these days?

[YellowSnow]

People not prepared for the TSA line. It's akin to people not being prepared to pump their gas at Costco. You had 5 minutes to put your incidentals in your pants pocket in nook of your carry on. Loosen your shoes. That being said some of the bullshit TSA requires from one location to the next, or even continues to require is baffling. Oh and people travelling with animals. Also check your bags.

Living in Lexington, I’m used to going out of a small airport often with only one X-ray machine. Since I’m precheck, I get a big laminated card so the X-ray people know I’m not taking off my shoes or removing my laptop. I’ve had the same experience flying out of Kauai.

Fly out of Palm Beach 2 years ago and they had minimum staffing and only one line so I get the big laminated card. Send my bag through and the fucking idiots pull it and ask if I have any electronics. I’m like yup. Fucking idiots starry nearly yelling at me that it’s supposed to come out. I reply that I’m precheck and they keep nearly yelling, it doesn’t matter.

That episode made my blood pressure go up a couple points.

White Wakanda International Airport works in the similar fashion @CFetters_Nacho_Lover - i.e., one line, but placard to indicate you don't need to remove shoes and laptops.

 

[BleachedAnusDawg]

How many of you can say you were detained by the TSA in an interrogation room for an hour while they checked your information out due to being on the terrorist watch list? I mean, other than @PurpleBaze.

That was some bullshit.

 

[RaceBannon]

How many of you can say you were detained by the TSA in an interrogation room for an hour while they checked your information out due to being on the terrorist watch list? I mean, other than @PurpleBaze.

That was some bullshit.

They were monitoring the Tug

 

[haie]

The "air" part.

Only fly first class. Hawaii and Texas.

Can't stand it.

Won't fly anymore. Just won't.

 

[whlinder]

The "air" part.

Only fly first class. Hawaii and Texas.

Can't stand it.

Won't fly anymore. Just won't.

Oh but *I* sound so white and rich

 

[haie]

My only good flying experience was waiting to board in Austin this year and an A&M old, rich and white guy shook my hand about how happy he was that UW beat Texas down and took me out for some beers and talked about all the hate he had in his life for Texas.

 

[BennyBeaver]

My only good flying experience was waiting to board in Austin this year and an A&M old, rich and white guy shook my hand about how happy he was that UW beat Texas down and took me out for some beers and talked about all the hate he had in his life for Texas.

Did he give you a reach around?

 

[Fishpo31]

People not prepared for the TSA line. It's akin to people not being prepared to pump their gas at Costco. You had 5 minutes to put your incidentals in your pants pocket in nook of your carry on. Loosen your shoes. That being said some of the bullshit TSA requires from one location to the next, or even continues to require is baffling. Oh and people travelling with animals. Also check your bags.

Living in Lexington, I’m used to going out of a small airport often with only one X-ray machine. Since I’m precheck, I get a big laminated card so the X-ray people know I’m not taking off my shoes or removing my laptop. I’ve had the same experience flying out of Kauai.

Fly out of Palm Beach 2 years ago and they had minimum staffing and only one line so I get the big laminated card. Send my bag through and the fucking idiots pull it and ask if I have any electronics. I’m like yup. Fucking idiots starry nearly yelling at me that it’s supposed to come out. I reply that I’m precheck and they keep nearly yelling, it doesn’t matter.

That episode made my blood pressure go up a couple points.

After 9/11, I routinely got pulled in for electronics. Trying to explain to a couple of cement head TSA agents the purpose of a radar gun is not enjoyable. In Anchorage, I got put in an interrogation room and was there for an hour...at one point, I was going back and forth trying to decide whom I would call first, my boss or my attorney. Finally, they brought in an FBI guy who had a clue...We got letters to carry from the commissioner's office after about 6 months, with a LEO hotline number...

 

[dflea]

I don't hate air travel - it's just not as cool as it used to be. It's still better than driving, though.

A few years ago, we went back to Michigan to visit the in-laws. My wife and kids drove - I flew. It took them almost 40 hours of driving, and took me 6 and a half hours flying, including changing planes in Chicago.

But I didn't have a hot stewardess, they wouldn't let me in the cockpit or give me a set of wings, and they didn't hand out pretzel sticks and Schulers bar cheese - so it wasn't as cool as it used to be.

When I was about 8, my brother and I flew a red-eye from O'Hare to SeaTac on a 747 with about 15 people on it. After we got to cruising altitude and everyone was snoozing, we found an unattended drink cart, and pilfered a bunch of airline liquor bottles. I got wasted on Grasshoppers and got my diabetes all whacked out at the same time. Since we landed in the middle of the night, I told my mom I just woke up and that's why I was stumbling around. She either bought it or was too tired to GAF.

That kind of fun shit doesn't go on these days, so now I just grab a couple Bloody Marys prior to boarding and then sit down and listen to music so I don't want to murder people.

 

[chuck]

When I was about 8, my brother and I flew a red-eye from O'Hare to SeaTac on a 747 with about 15 people on it. After we got to cruising altitude and everyone was snoozing, we found an unattended drink cart, and pilfered a bunch of airline liquor bottles. I got wasted on Grasshoppers and got my diabetes all whacked out at the same time[/b]. Since we landed in the middle of the night, I told my mom I just woke up and that's why I was stumbling around. She either bought it or was too tired to GAF.
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Anyone who has never been drunk while teetering in the brink of diabetic coma has never been properly drunk.

 

[YellowSnow]

When I was about 8, my brother and I flew a red-eye from O'Hare to SeaTac on a 747 with about 15 people on it. After we got to cruising altitude and everyone was snoozing, we found an unattended drink cart, and pilfered a bunch of airline liquor bottles. I got wasted on Grasshoppers and got my diabetes all whacked out at the same time[/b]. Since we landed in the middle of the night, I told my mom I just woke up and that's why I was stumbling around. She either bought it or was too tired to GAF.
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Anyone who has never been drunk while teetering in the brink of diabetic coma has never been properly drunk.

We sure got a lot of diabeetus on these boards.

 

[dflea]

When I was about 8, my brother and I flew a red-eye from O'Hare to SeaTac on a 747 with about 15 people on it. After we got to cruising altitude and everyone was snoozing, we found an unattended drink cart, and pilfered a bunch of airline liquor bottles. I got wasted on Grasshoppers and got my diabetes all whacked out at the same time[/b]. Since we landed in the middle of the night, I told my mom I just woke up and that's why I was stumbling around. She either bought it or was too tired to GAF.
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Anyone who has never been drunk while teetering in the brink of diabetic coma has never been properly drunk.

We sure got a lot of diabeetus on these boards.

Mine isn't the old and fat kind of diabeetus, but still.

 

[chuck]

When I was about 8, my brother and I flew a red-eye from O'Hare to SeaTac on a 747 with about 15 people on it. After we got to cruising altitude and everyone was snoozing, we found an unattended drink cart, and pilfered a bunch of airline liquor bottles. I got wasted on Grasshoppers and got my diabetes all whacked out at the same time[/b]. Since we landed in the middle of the night, I told my mom I just woke up and that's why I was stumbling around. She either bought it or was too tired to GAF.
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Anyone who has never been drunk while teetering in the brink of diabetic coma has never been properly drunk.

We sure got a lot of diabeetus on these boards.

Mine isn't the old and fat kind of diabeetus, but still.

Mine is, though I've never been fat and I've had it since well before I got old.. It's a gift my dad's side of the family shared. Drinking doesn't usually throw me off much but I had a couple of incidents where it did. Weed is much safer but then I have that sweet tooth...

 

[dflea]

When I was about 8, my brother and I flew a red-eye from O'Hare to SeaTac on a 747 with about 15 people on it. After we got to cruising altitude and everyone was snoozing, we found an unattended drink cart, and pilfered a bunch of airline liquor bottles. I got wasted on Grasshoppers and got my diabetes all whacked out at the same time[/b]. Since we landed in the middle of the night, I told my mom I just woke up and that's why I was stumbling around. She either bought it or was too tired to GAF.
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Anyone who has never been drunk while teetering in the brink of diabetic coma has never been properly drunk.

We sure got a lot of diabeetus on these boards.

Mine isn't the old and fat kind of diabeetus, but still.

Mine is, though I've never been fat and I've had it since well before I got old.. It's a gift my dad's side of the family shared. Drinking doesn't usually throw me off much but I had a couple of incidents where it did. Weed is much safer but then I have that sweet tooth...

Bummer. But there are worse things we could have to deal with. I only got the bg out of whack back then because I had no idea what my bg was at any given time - and Grasshoppers are loaded with carbs. You pissed on a stick back then - and that told you what your bg was hours ago. Completely useless for managing diabetes, but that's all there was. Not just that, I took one shot a day and that was supposed to control your bg all day.

Now I have a nifty CGM, so I know what my bg is all the time, and I take about 6 shots a day. I can pretty much eat or drink what I want and adjust the amount of fast-acting insulin I take and keep myself dialed in most of the time. A complete game-changer - and now I have my a1c hemoglobin in the 5.7-6.2 range without tweaking out with low bg all the time. High bg will kill you - but low bg will kill you today.

I also favor weed over alcohol - but still maintain a close relationship with booze.

 

[1to392831weretaken]

I don't hate air travel - it's just not as cool as it used to be. It's still better than driving, though.

A few years ago, we went back to Michigan to visit the in-laws. My wife and kids drove - I flew. It took them almost 40 hours of driving, and took me 6 and a half hours flying, including changing planes in Chicago.

But I didn't have a hot stewardess, they wouldn't let me in the cockpit or give me a set of wings, and they didn't hand out pretzel sticks and Schulers bar cheese - so it wasn't as cool as it used to be.

When I was about 8, my brother and I flew a red-eye from O'Hare to SeaTac on a 747 with about 15 people on it. After we got to cruising altitude and everyone was snoozing, we found an unattended drink cart, and pilfered a bunch of airline liquor bottles. I got wasted on Grasshoppers and got my diabetes all whacked out at the same time. Since we landed in the middle of the night, I told my mom I just woke up and that's why I was stumbling around. She either bought it or was too tired to GAF.

That kind of fun shit doesn't go on these days, so now I just grab a couple Bloody Marys prior to boarding and then sit down and listen to music so I don't want to murder people.

At 8 years old you knew how to mix a grasshopper and were getting drunk!? At 8 years old, my kids couldn't boil macaroni.

 

[DerekJohnson]

People not prepared for the TSA line. It's akin to people not being prepared to pump their gas at Costco. You had 5 minutes to put your incidentals in your pants pocket in nook of your carry on. Loosen your shoes. That being said some of the bullshit TSA requires from one location to the next, or even continues to require is baffling. Oh and people travelling with animals. Also check your bags.

Living in Lexington, I’m used to going out of a small airport often with only one X-ray machine. Since I’m precheck, I get a big laminated card so the X-ray people know I’m not taking off my shoes or removing my laptop. I’ve had the same experience flying out of Kauai.

Fly out of Palm Beach 2 years ago and they had minimum staffing and only one line so I get the big laminated card. Send my bag through and the fucking idiots pull it and ask if I have any electronics. I’m like yup. Fucking idiots starry nearly yelling at me that it’s supposed to come out. I reply that I’m precheck and they keep nearly yelling, it doesn’t matter.

That episode made my blood pressure go up a couple points.

After 9/11, I routinely got pulled in for electronics. Trying to explain to a couple of cement head TSA agents the purpose of a radar gun is not enjoyable. In Anchorage, I got put in an interrogation room and was there for an hour...at one point, I was going back and forth trying to decide whom I would call first, my boss or my attorney. Finally, they brought in an FBI guy who had a clue...We got letters to carry from the commissioner's office after about 6 months, with a LEO hotline number...

In the 1990s coming back from France I got taken aside after arriving at Sea-Tac and taken to a room for roughly 45 minutes.

When me and my buddies Xavier et Francis were driving across the border from New York into Quebec at 2AM, we got separated and taken into 3 separate rooms and grilled. The car was searched.

Finally, I have been pulled out of line at airports 5-6 times and had my travel bag emptied and swabbed. I've never been arrested or spent time incarcerated. But I don't know...

 

[PurpleBaze]

People not prepared for the TSA line. It's akin to people not being prepared to pump their gas at Costco. You had 5 minutes to put your incidentals in your pants pocket in nook of your carry on. Loosen your shoes. That being said some of the bullshit TSA requires from one location to the next, or even continues to require is baffling. Oh and people travelling with animals. Also check your bags.

Living in Lexington, I’m used to going out of a small airport often with only one X-ray machine. Since I’m precheck, I get a big laminated card so the X-ray people know I’m not taking off my shoes or removing my laptop. I’ve had the same experience flying out of Kauai.

Fly out of Palm Beach 2 years ago and they had minimum staffing and only one line so I get the big laminated card. Send my bag through and the fucking idiots pull it and ask if I have any electronics. I’m like yup. Fucking idiots starry nearly yelling at me that it’s supposed to come out. I reply that I’m precheck and they keep nearly yelling, it doesn’t matter.

That episode made my blood pressure go up a couple points.

After 9/11, I routinely got pulled in for electronics. Trying to explain to a couple of cement head TSA agents the purpose of a radar gun is not enjoyable. In Anchorage, I got put in an interrogation room and was there for an hour...at one point, I was going back and forth trying to decide whom I would call first, my boss or my attorney. Finally, they brought in an FBI guy who had a clue...We got letters to carry from the commissioner's office after about 6 months, with a LEO hotline number...

In the 1990s coming back from France I got taken aside after arriving at Sea-Tac and taken to a room for roughly 45 minutes.

When me and my buddies Xavier et Francis were driving across the border from New York into Quebec at 2AM, we got separated and taken into 3 separate rooms and grilled. The car was searched.

Finally, I have been pulled out of line at airports 5-6 times and had my travel bag emptied and swabbed. I've never been arrested or spent time incarcerated. But I don't know...

Obviously, they've heard of Derek Johnson and his crew.

 

[Fishpo31]

People not prepared for the TSA line. It's akin to people not being prepared to pump their gas at Costco. You had 5 minutes to put your incidentals in your pants pocket in nook of your carry on. Loosen your shoes. That being said some of the bullshit TSA requires from one location to the next, or even continues to require is baffling. Oh and people travelling with animals. Also check your bags.

Living in Lexington, I’m used to going out of a small airport often with only one X-ray machine. Since I’m precheck, I get a big laminated card so the X-ray people know I’m not taking off my shoes or removing my laptop. I’ve had the same experience flying out of Kauai.

Fly out of Palm Beach 2 years ago and they had minimum staffing and only one line so I get the big laminated card. Send my bag through and the fucking idiots pull it and ask if I have any electronics. I’m like yup. Fucking idiots starry nearly yelling at me that it’s supposed to come out. I reply that I’m precheck and they keep nearly yelling, it doesn’t matter.

That episode made my blood pressure go up a couple points.

After 9/11, I routinely got pulled in for electronics. Trying to explain to a couple of cement head TSA agents the purpose of a radar gun is not enjoyable. In Anchorage, I got put in an interrogation room and was there for an hour...at one point, I was going back and forth trying to decide whom I would call first, my boss or my attorney. Finally, they brought in an FBI guy who had a clue...We got letters to carry from the commissioner's office after about 6 months, with a LEO hotline number...

In the 1990s coming back from France I got taken aside after arriving at Sea-Tac and taken to a room for roughly 45 minutes.

When me and my buddies Xavier et Francis were driving across the border from New York into Quebec at 2AM, we got separated and taken into 3 separate rooms and grilled. The car was searched.

Finally, I have been pulled out of line at airports 5-6 times and had my travel bag emptied and swabbed. I've never been arrested or spent time incarcerated. But I don't know...

Obviously, they've heard of Derek Johnson and his crew.

A good friend, also a Johnson, has a son that is on the no-fly list (in name only), and has been since he was 10 years old…after several years, I think they got it figured out, but my buddy got very close to being arrested several times when the boy got repeatedly flagged and pulled in…

 

[DerekJohnson]

People not prepared for the TSA line. It's akin to people not being prepared to pump their gas at Costco. You had 5 minutes to put your incidentals in your pants pocket in nook of your carry on. Loosen your shoes. That being said some of the bullshit TSA requires from one location to the next, or even continues to require is baffling. Oh and people travelling with animals. Also check your bags.

Living in Lexington, I’m used to going out of a small airport often with only one X-ray machine. Since I’m precheck, I get a big laminated card so the X-ray people know I’m not taking off my shoes or removing my laptop. I’ve had the same experience flying out of Kauai.

Fly out of Palm Beach 2 years ago and they had minimum staffing and only one line so I get the big laminated card. Send my bag through and the fucking idiots pull it and ask if I have any electronics. I’m like yup. Fucking idiots starry nearly yelling at me that it’s supposed to come out. I reply that I’m precheck and they keep nearly yelling, it doesn’t matter.

That episode made my blood pressure go up a couple points.

After 9/11, I routinely got pulled in for electronics. Trying to explain to a couple of cement head TSA agents the purpose of a radar gun is not enjoyable. In Anchorage, I got put in an interrogation room and was there for an hour...at one point, I was going back and forth trying to decide whom I would call first, my boss or my attorney. Finally, they brought in an FBI guy who had a clue...We got letters to carry from the commissioner's office after about 6 months, with a LEO hotline number...

In the 1990s coming back from France I got taken aside after arriving at Sea-Tac and taken to a room for roughly 45 minutes.

When me and my buddies Xavier et Francis were driving across the border from New York into Quebec at 2AM, we got separated and taken into 3 separate rooms and grilled. The car was searched.

Finally, I have been pulled out of line at airports 5-6 times and had my travel bag emptied and swabbed. I've never been arrested or spent time incarcerated. But I don't know...

Obviously, they've heard of Derek Johnson and his crew.

Hardy har har

 

[BennyBeaver]

People not prepared for the TSA line. It's akin to people not being prepared to pump their gas at Costco. You had 5 minutes to put your incidentals in your pants pocket in nook of your carry on. Loosen your shoes. That being said some of the bullshit TSA requires from one location to the next, or even continues to require is baffling. Oh and people travelling with animals. Also check your bags.

Living in Lexington, I’m used to going out of a small airport often with only one X-ray machine. Since I’m precheck, I get a big laminated card so the X-ray people know I’m not taking off my shoes or removing my laptop. I’ve had the same experience flying out of Kauai.

Fly out of Palm Beach 2 years ago and they had minimum staffing and only one line so I get the big laminated card. Send my bag through and the fucking idiots pull it and ask if I have any electronics. I’m like yup. Fucking idiots starry nearly yelling at me that it’s supposed to come out. I reply that I’m precheck and they keep nearly yelling, it doesn’t matter.

That episode made my blood pressure go up a couple points.

After 9/11, I routinely got pulled in for electronics. Trying to explain to a couple of cement head TSA agents the purpose of a radar gun is not enjoyable. In Anchorage, I got put in an interrogation room and was there for an hour...at one point, I was going back and forth trying to decide whom I would call first, my boss or my attorney. Finally, they brought in an FBI guy who had a clue...We got letters to carry from the commissioner's office after about 6 months, with a LEO hotline number...

In the 1990s coming back from France I got taken aside after arriving at Sea-Tac and taken to a room for roughly 45 minutes.

When me and my buddies Xavier et Francis were driving across the border from New York into Quebec at 2AM, we got separated and taken into 3 separate rooms and grilled. The car was searched.

Finally, I have been pulled out of line at airports 5-6 times and had my travel bag emptied and swabbed. I've never been arrested or spent time incarcerated. But I don't know...

They see the shit you post and are making sure you’re not trafficking Indians and Koreans.