How fed up with airport security am I? I’m in the boarding area for my Sydney to Vancouver flight, with a stop in Honolulu. Before I got to this point I had to go through customs… no worries, immigration… no worries, security… no worries, then before I could enter the boarding area I had to be patted down and have my carry-on searched by had, even after the x-ray at the original security. This is because we’re touching down in Hawaii, the US. And this happens only at gates that are going in/through the US. In Hawaii I have to get off the plane, go through security / immigration / customs again and then get back on the same plane for the leg to Vancouver. wtf? It’s not even a case of it being a necessary evil… The rest of the world hasn’t gone this far. Their metal detectors are less sensitive (I can wear my belt through it), one security point is enough, and “liquids” aren’t an issue. It’s almost like they’re asking for it… Even I, mild mannered Canadian, was thinking it’s almost like they’re trying to get you to try something… Like when your mom says “Don’t touch the burner on the stove, it’s not.” Chances are you never even contemplated it until she told you not to, and what do you do next? You touch the hot burner just to see why she had to say anything at all…
Anyways, enough of that. Let alone that a flight to Australia costs the average person making $60k a year 5-6% of their after-tax income, they have to be subjected to more stringent security measures than when they go to prison. Oops, enough of that I said.
Had no idea that burn had affected you so deeply, you were only at the time and you even had to pull out the stove drawer to reach the burner. Then we sat for 2 hours with wet cloths on your ringed little hand. Guess it WAS pretty traumatic!
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