03-06-2020, 01:11 PM
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14 hours ago, heavyhorse said:
I agree. I've only been on once in the last 40 years; total fiasco, tornado warning, 4 missed connections. My feet stuck to the carpet. The toilet didn't flush.
But they have metal detectors damn near everywhere now. You get nabbed for walking out of Home Despot and setting off the alarm for bringing your own tape measure. Just get prepared to get felt up on a regular basis.
When the brace is gone I'll have to think of that. Right now folks look at it and just wave me through. That tells how secure our nation really is by the way. They'll pull an old lady out of a wheelchair at a Federal building to search the chair, but wave through a military type looking man walking with a metal brace without a pat-down. It's happened to me. I could be bringing anything in, they wouldn't know, and I usually am still armed. The psychology of their training. They're taught to look for the 'hidden' not the obvious, so they ignore me.
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