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Funny, or perhaps not-so-funny, event of the day. Middle-aged businessman goes through the walk-through metal detector which I am monitoring, and alarms. He has to wait a second while the guy doing handwanding finishes up with someone else, so meanwhile he has time to start going through his pockets.
"Oh, it's _this_!" he says, tossing a foil bag into a bin, and turning to go back through the walk-through.
"No, sir, I can't let you go back through, you need to get handwanded."
He was NOT happy, and yelled at the guy who had to wand him, "You guys have to start profiling! I make too much money to be inconvenienced like this!"
Sometimes I think we're way too nice to people, now. After he left another screener muttered to me "I'd like to ask him how we're supposed to profile. If he said we should be looking for Afghani-looking people, then you could ask him 'And Timothy McVeigh looked like this _how_?'"
And that begs the question, too, (as Eor asked in a letter to a Boston Globe writer who said roughly the same thing the other day), does he have a lawyer friend who expects to get rich off the suits which would be brought against the government for racial profiling?
But, if he makes so much money, how come he doesn't just charter his own flight so he won't have to come through security?
Again, though, we had so many nice people come through during the day, I think he was the only asshole, and several people every day say that they appreciate the work we're doing. I SO appreciate people who are nice!
"Oh, it's _this_!" he says, tossing a foil bag into a bin, and turning to go back through the walk-through.
"No, sir, I can't let you go back through, you need to get handwanded."
He was NOT happy, and yelled at the guy who had to wand him, "You guys have to start profiling! I make too much money to be inconvenienced like this!"
Sometimes I think we're way too nice to people, now. After he left another screener muttered to me "I'd like to ask him how we're supposed to profile. If he said we should be looking for Afghani-looking people, then you could ask him 'And Timothy McVeigh looked like this _how_?'"
And that begs the question, too, (as Eor asked in a letter to a Boston Globe writer who said roughly the same thing the other day), does he have a lawyer friend who expects to get rich off the suits which would be brought against the government for racial profiling?
But, if he makes so much money, how come he doesn't just charter his own flight so he won't have to come through security?
Again, though, we had so many nice people come through during the day, I think he was the only asshole, and several people every day say that they appreciate the work we're doing. I SO appreciate people who are nice!