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anyone flying lately (pg. 4)
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| Banora |
Hahaa, I'm going to use that line this summer when I leave for Europe: :D "Why yes, I'd love some strawberries!"
My worst experience I ever had was in Chicago in 2005. Some moron in Sweden only checked my bag as far as Chicago instead of checking it all the way to Louisville. My bags combined easily weighed almost 150lbs (keep in mind I'm about 105lbs), and this wouldn't have been a big deal to recheck my bag...if the plane hadn't been two hours late arriving, and its the eve before Christmas Eve, so there are a -ton of people.
On the way over I ended up getting my period and didn't have anything to use but some toilet paper I would keep stealing from the bathroom. I only had 40 or so minutes to make my connection (recheck bags, go through security, then to the other terminal), so I am hauling these bags that weigh more than my body weight, blood dripping down my legs from the applied force (TMI I know) but I had on a coat that went to my ankles so it wasn't obvious, I'm jet-lagged as and frantic to get home.
I get my bags checked no problem. I go through the security check point and I'm impatient, just wanting to get my bag and shoes and run to the end of the terminal. But oh no, nononono. I get selected for a ing pat-down. So the woman takes me to the side of the line and pats me down. She then asks me to remove my coat. I was like "Uh, no. You've pat me down, you've checked in my pockets. Please let me leave, I have to make my flight in fifteen minutes." She told me again to take my coat off, and I won't, because I know my pants are stained with blood and I didn't want an entire line of people seeing this. I tried to tell her why (that I had my period) and she was like "I don't care, take your coat off." At this point I started to cry and told her I wasn't taking my coat off because I had blood all over my pants, and that she's wanded me, pat me down and everything else, what more does she want?
She calls security, who lead me into a room to the side. They were nice guys and were like "Whats the problem, why won't you take your coat off?" I'm still all kinds of crying from the stress, the fact I have five minutes to catch my plane, and just being freaked out, and I told them that I didn't feel comfortable taking my coat off because my pants were coated with blood from getting my period over the Atlantic. The guys (ironically) were like: "Oh, thats it? Okay you can go."
While I was inside someone (I'm assuming se-cunt-ity) had went through my carry-on and was strung out everywhere at the end of the conveyor belt. Nothing (that I know of) was taken.
ing bitch. :mad: |
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| Leon |
gd ban
thats almost as long as the last book i read :whip: |
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| Leon |
lol I have a messed up habit of reading only a sentence near the end of long text. I just read the whole pack backwards from bottom to top
when I saw the word blood I HAD to know what happened before |
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| Ian |
| quote: | Originally posted by Banora
Hahaa, I'm going to use that line this summer when I leave for Europe: :D "Why yes, I'd love some strawberries!"
My worst experience I ever had was in Chicago in 2005. Some moron in Sweden only checked my bag as far as Chicago instead of checking it all the way to Louisville. My bags combined easily weighed almost 150lbs (keep in mind I'm about 105lbs), and this wouldn't have been a big deal to recheck my bag...if the plane hadn't been two hours late arriving, and its the eve before Christmas Eve, so there are a -ton of people.
On the way over I ended up getting my period and didn't have anything to use but some toilet paper I would keep stealing from the bathroom. I only had 40 or so minutes to make my connection (recheck bags, go through security, then to the other terminal), so I am hauling these bags that weigh more than my body weight, blood dripping down my legs from the applied force (TMI I know) but I had on a coat that went to my ankles so it wasn't obvious, I'm jet-lagged as and frantic to get home.
I get my bags checked no problem. I go through the security check point and I'm impatient, just wanting to get my bag and shoes and run to the end of the terminal. But oh no, nononono. I get selected for a ing pat-down. So the woman takes me to the side of the line and pats me down. She then asks me to remove my coat. I was like "Uh, no. You've pat me down, you've checked in my pockets. Please let me leave, I have to make my flight in fifteen minutes." She told me again to take my coat off, and I won't, because I know my pants are stained with blood and I didn't want an entire line of people seeing this. I tried to tell her why (that I had my period) and she was like "I don't care, take your coat off." At this point I started to cry and told her I wasn't taking my coat off because I had blood all over my pants, and that she's wanded me, pat me down and everything else, what more does she want?
She calls security, who lead me into a room to the side. They were nice guys and were like "Whats the problem, why won't you take your coat off?" I'm still all kinds of crying from the stress, the fact I have five minutes to catch my plane, and just being freaked out, and I told them that I didn't feel comfortable taking my coat off because my pants were coated with blood from getting my period over the Atlantic. The guys (ironically) were like: "Oh, thats it? Okay you can go."
While I was inside someone (I'm assuming se-cunt-ity) had went through my carry-on and was strung out everywhere at the end of the conveyor belt. Nothing (that I know of) was taken.
ing bitch. :mad: |
wow. I'm glad I get to use small regional airports mostly, they're way more helpful as a rule.
now inspector banora, find me a house :toothless |
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| itsmekika |
I'm actually flying to New York on May 7th, and I am SCARED! lol
I haven't been on an airplane since I was like 8 :nervous: |
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| lücid |
| it sounds like some of you people just don't know what to expect when you go through airport security. |
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| tubularbills |
| quote: | Originally posted by lücid
it sounds like some of you people just don't know what to expect when you go through airport security. |
I ING HATE PEOPLE LIKE THAT
"dude, the TSA guy says you have to take off your coat"
"my what?"
"your coat - take it off"
"but why?"
"cause the TSA guy said to - and put it on the conveyer belt"
"does it go in a bin?"
"NO PUT IT ON THE ING BELT"
"do i have to take my belt off?"
HOLY PEOPLE GET WITH THE GODDAMN PROGRAM.
virgin fliers are worse than regular virgins. HONESTLY; just do what the ing TSA people tell you to; and move!
in the summer, i wear next to nothing while flying. no belt. no shoes. sandals come off in 1/2 a second. you take all your out of your pockets, put it in your carry on; and put the carry on on the belt and walk through.
it is NOT that complicated.
flying in the winter time sucks ass especialyl when people have on like 4 layers. ing hate it. |
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| Frenchie |
| People who are scared of flying deserve to go down in a plane. |
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| Zewad |
| quote: | Originally posted by tubularbills
its become a bore for me.
meh |
fly on one of your AF planes... you did join the AF for a reason right??
the weather is just a cover, you really wanted to fly |
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| tubularbills |
| quote: | Originally posted by Zewad
fly on one of your AF planes... you did join the AF for a reason right??
the weather is just a cover, you really wanted to fly |
not really :/
although they are giving away incentive rides on the T1s and T38s. would be cool to pick one up here. |
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| fbgdavidson |
| quote: | Originally posted by lücid
it sounds like some of you people just don't know what to expect when you go through airport security. |
+1
Some people really don't think when flying. I'm lost for words when I see people at security with lace up boots that go up to their knees, or a thousand piercings, or that wear tons of jewelry...especially when they are in front of me.
I swear the general public are morons enough but when it comes to flying it's about 1000x worse.
People who piss and moan that security is a complete bitch just don't think logically about it...or have insufficient equipment to deal with periods on transatlantic flights :p |
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| Banora |
| quote: | Originally posted by fbgdavidson
or have insufficient equipment to deal with periods on transatlantic flights :p |
Bah, this was back when I was a teenager and my period cycle was way out of whack and could not be mapped, so I never knew when it was coming. Besides that and the chocolate bar incident, I've never had trouble flying. :o
Still, you'd think a woman would understand the "I had my period and my pants are covered in blood" dilemma. My coat was open and she patted me down and checked my coat pockets. It was Christmas eve eve, she was probably sick of everyone and wanted to go home. I still say she's a bitch and I hope she gets stuck at work sans vagina-plug. :whip: |
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