Airport security clearance areas. The amount of humiliation passengers have to take nowadays is outright disgusting. NEXUS or no NEXUS... Standing in lines. Taking shoes off and walking barefoot on the floor that's mopped by the same mops they use to clean washrooms. Taking your belt off and putting it on in front of everyone else at the risk of your pants falling off. Having your completely trivial private stuff touched and taken all out of your carry-on, just because a moron in front of the screen never saw a camera lens before. Being X-ray'd and patted down. Having to explain that this same sealed little bottle of Peptobismol have cleared two securities on the incoming flights without anyone having an issue with it and having to throw it away nevertheless, just because ...
Funny example: I was going through O'Hare the other day and they announced an experiment, asking people to go through the "accelerated security lane" and telling them NOT to take anything off, NOT to take their laptops out, nothing. Just put the bag on the conveyor belt and walk into the X-Ray. I thought, maybe things are starting to change to commonsensical... Nope. Never saw it happening again...
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