And yet with train travel in other countries, we show our ticket, board the train with our bags, place them where there's space, find your seat. Why are trains different than planes? They've had terrorists too. Yet such a better experience.
Prob because a train needs rails to travel on. You can’t hijack a train and take out gigantic office towers in a bustling metropolitan centre.
A train still causes a hell of a lot of damage and casualties if blown up.
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Maybe airport specific or related to security screening access. In the US we use TSA PreCheck lanes or sometimes the special Amex Platinum priority lanes and they never have any special requirements or requests. Are you using regular security lanes?
At YYC security always seems to ask for shoes off except for the kids.
I have that same card, so who knows. I could also be getting things mixed up and I can't keep track of what you have to do in which airports.
I was happy that Canada Post added a delivery preference on their tracking page, just to find out that it means nothing and they're just going to do whatever they want with it anyway
This was about 20 years ago, but I was in the Saskatoon airport with my iPod. The ####ing security monkey made me turn it on and he put my earbud in his ear to make sure it wasn't a bomb. I couldn't ####ing believe it.
LOL and so gross;
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This was about 20 years ago, but I was in the Saskatoon airport with my iPod. The ####ing security monkey made me turn it on and he put my earbud in his ear to make sure it wasn't a bomb. I couldn't ####ing believe it.
About six years ago, some guy ahead of me was going through security with an iPad with one of those keyboard covers. He was taking it out and the security person at the bins says "Nah, iPads and tablets stay in the bag." Alrighty then. I had a Surface 3 LTE (the first of the fanless x86 Surface devices) with a type cover. So I leave it in my bag and the bin goes through. Buddy with the iPad ahead of me goes through no problem, I get yanked.
Security Moron: "You're supposed to take your laptop out of your bag."
Me: "This is a tablet, your own security staff told the guy ahead of me to leave tablets in the bag."
SM: "It has a keyboard."
Me: "It has a keyboard cover just like the iPad of the guy ahead of me. What, is the x-ray machine picking up the processor architecture?"
SM: "It isn't the same."
Me: "Then explain to me the difference between a tablet with a detachable keyboard cover that can stay in a bag and a tablet with a detachable keyboard cover that must be removed from the bag." (I desperately fought against every urge imaginable to end this sentence with "you mindless f-cking idiot".)
SM: *puts the Surface through the x-ray scanner separately* "Okay, it's good."
Me: "No sh-t."
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People are struggling because they take their entire house with them when travelling. I travel pretty light, I guess I'm low maintenance. But people need their lotions and their electronics and their pillows and their stuffed animals etc...
So people are now abusing carry on overweights and there's never enough room in the overhead. So when it comes time to leave, everyone is struggling. It's selfishness. People complain that they have to be back in their seats too soon, have to turn off their tvs too soon, have to open the blinds too soon. They could be getting their #### together instead.
Flying to Greece last year, I went to put my case in my overhead locker. I opened the door and there was this huge sombrero shaped hat taking up almost half the locker so there was no room for my case.
I ask a bunch of people if it’s theirs and some woman two rows back on the other side of the aisle says it’s hers. So I ask if she’d like to move it so I can put my case above where I’m sitting.
Holy ####, did see ever make a song and dance of it. A huge audible sigh, flicking off her seat belt as theatrically as I’ve ever seen and a death stare before collecting her hat.
I spent a good portion of the flight wishing I’d just rammed my case on top of the ####er.
In other news, I’m getting collected at the airport at the end of the month and my buddy lives in the SW.
I might just say I’ll take an Uber to his.
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About six years ago, some guy ahead of me was going through security with an iPad with one of those keyboard covers. He was taking it out and the security person at the bins says "Nah, iPads and tablets stay in the bag." Alrighty then. I had a Surface 3 LTE (the first of the fanless x86 Surface devices) with a type cover. So I leave it in my bag and the bin goes through. Buddy with the iPad ahead of me goes through no problem, I get yanked.
Security Moron: "You're supposed to take your laptop out of your bag."
Me: "This is a tablet, your own security staff told the guy ahead of me to leave tablets in the bag."
SM: "It has a keyboard."
Me: "It has a keyboard cover just like the iPad of the guy ahead of me. What, is the x-ray machine picking up the processor architecture?"
SM: "It isn't the same."
Me: "Then explain to me the difference between a tablet with a detachable keyboard cover that can stay in a bag and a tablet with a detachable keyboard cover that must be removed from the bag." (I desperately fought against every urge imaginable to end this sentence with "you mindless f-cking idiot".)
SM: *puts the Surface through the x-ray scanner separately* "Okay, it's good."
Me: "No sh-t."
It's Steve Jobs vs Bill Gates obviously. Bill Gates pissed off TSA at some point.
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Flying to Greece last year, I went to put my case in my overhead locker. I opened the door and there was this huge sombrero shaped hat taking up almost half the locker so there was no room for my case.
I ask a bunch of people if it’s theirs and some woman two rows back on the other side of the aisle says it’s hers. So I ask if she’d like to move it so I can put my case above where I’m sitting.
Holy ####, did see ever make a song and dance of it. A huge audible sigh, flicking off her seat belt as theatrically as I’ve ever seen and a death stare before collecting her hat.
I spent a good portion of the flight wishing I’d just rammed my case on top of the ####er.
In other news, I’m getting collected at the airport at the end of the month and my buddy lives in the SW.
I might just say I’ll take an Uber to his.
I actually would have found her reaction pretty hilarious. That is so ridiculous. No you’re giant stupid hat that looks dumb doesn’t get priority over bags dumb ####.
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This was about 20 years ago, but I was in the Saskatoon airport with my iPod. The ####ing security monkey made me turn it on and he put my earbud in his ear to make sure it wasn't a bomb. I couldn't ####ing believe it.
Maybe he thought you were listening to this...
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Flying to Greece last year, I went to put my case in my overhead locker. I opened the door and there was this huge sombrero shaped hat taking up almost half the locker so there was no room for my case.
I ask a bunch of people if it’s theirs and some woman two rows back on the other side of the aisle says it’s hers. So I ask if she’d like to move it so I can put my case above where I’m sitting.
Holy ####, did see ever make a song and dance of it. A huge audible sigh, flicking off her seat belt as theatrically as I’ve ever seen and a death stare before collecting her hat.
I spent a good portion of the flight wishing I’d just rammed my case on top of the ####er.
In other news, I’m getting collected at the airport at the end of the month and my buddy lives in the SW.
I might just say I’ll take an Uber to his.
You can bet she'll be flying back with 4 carry-on bags and the agents at the gate won't do their job and make her check two of them.
You were a lot nicer about it than I would have been.
