I just returned from another business trip. I hate hate hate flying. I enjoy the taking off, up in the air and landing part. It’s all the pre and post requisites of the horror.
In a prior post I lambasted the TSA. Ditto. This is becoming ridiculous. What is more ridiculous is that all we like sheep are led to the slaughter without so much as a bleat. Show me your picture ID, show me your boarding pass, go right thru Mr Hassan, hold it grandma Jones, we need to wand you down, strip search you (yikes) and humiliate you.
I stood in line and watched these morons wand a 3-year-old blond kid with his mom, baby sister in a baby carrier and dad standing by.
This is so out of line - completely out of control.
It takes 1 hour 15 minutes to make the flight to Nashville. The prep in and out time (luggage and bus to parking lot) takes 3 hours 12 minutes. It now no longer makes sense to fly to anywhere closer than 5 hours drive time. I wouldn’t think of flying to St. Louis or Indianapolis. I’ll get in the old Buick, fire it up, and burn 40 gallons of gasoline to make the trip.
Flying stinks.
I have a solution:
When you get to the airport and present your ticket they would usher you and your bags into a large shipping container. It’s bar coded like UPS for your destination. You are asleep the whole time. It’s air conditioned. Your bags fly with you in the same container. You never know anything until you get to your destination. They would stack these things in cargo planes like cordwood. You would be unloaded by conveyor and fork lifted 20 at a time to the disembarcment department.
What would it be like?
You lay down and are given a cranial stimulator to have you imagine nice music, a wonderful elegant food court, courteous ticket agents, roomy comfortable seats, gracious flight attendants serving nice food, nice movie and being all around wonderful after which you imagine exiting to your auto and leaving the airport for home. Wouldn’t that be something.
None of that’s true anymore. I used to be much nicer to fly. I hate flying.
Now that I think of it if a family of 4 were flying together, they all had their own suspended animation shipping containers, Billy could end up in Baltimore, Sissy in Toledo, Mom in Birmingham, and Dad would be lost in the system somewhere.
It’s the only answer, I mean real security is in a prison. This society is quickly placing us behind bars and all the maniacs are on the outside. Patriot act, TSA, Security measures of all kinds, we are going over the top and don’t even know it.
I was shocked by this article in the USA today. People are signing up for totalitarianism and don’t even know it. Hitler had an enemy he used to impose absolute control over his country. History repeats.
Barney Fife now runs the TSA. Take away their bullet ---- PLEASE.
1 comment:
regarding flight, some comic in years gone by said, "If man were meant to fly, we'd have been born with tickets!"
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