Who is on bigger power trip: a bouncer at a stripclub or one of these TSA goons?

What is it about airports that makes people (read me) totally nuts. Maybe it's because they castrate you with their security regulations like not being allowed a bottle of water or maybe it's because the entire process is so frantic but I hate every single second of going to and being in an airport. These TSA guys are on such a power-trip as they march you through these endless lines for no reason other than the fact they can force you to do so.   A few months ago I saw a couple of brutes over at JFK give some 80 year old guy in a wheelchair the full strip-search treatment in some semi-private booth cause his arthritic hip was probably setting off the metal-detector.  This poor guy couldn't stand up on his own and these facists were bending him over and checking his five-hole for a shoe-bomb.


This is where I have my biggest issues the rights of our citizens are getting abused in the name of 'security'. But then again sitting on the plane isn’t much better either; not only do you have to worry about bird-flu, swine-flu, normal-flu, people encroaching into your space and the fact you gotta pay for peanuts on some flights but your worst nightmares come true when you are cornered by the filth knows as your fellow passengers. This is when flying goes from bad to unbearable.

Why somebody would get onto a plane without having showered is beyond me.. I had this experience this week when a nice Hasidic Man sat next to me and then basically made me puke the entire way to Ohio. So the government can make sure that you don't smuggle an aquafina on board but cannot regulate some sanitary guidelines.  They should have one of those firehoses they use to clean elephants for passengers not deemed clean enough for public consumption.   BO on a crowded flight is beyond rude and beyond normal comprehension but isn’t uncommon on these flights.

I have never so badly wanted those air-breathing things to come down.