Sitting in a bathroom stall at SFO getting ready for my flight. Getting ready consists of drinking the excess mini bottles I purchased that did not fit in the quart sized travel bag TSA requires. Though most international flights provide complementary alcohol service. I have been told that AirChina is the cattle car of flight. Looking forward to seeing how much truth there is to that, but not looking forward to paying for booze for 12 hours. I managed to stuff 4 mini bottles of scotch in a ziplock. The extra bottles, all Bombay Sapphire Gin, are getting drank in this bathroom next to the airport security gate. While many who know me might fall back on the logical idea that I'm just an irrational drunk who enjoys being intoxicated whenever I can. The truth is I hate flying and suffer fairly bad anxiety while at airports. Sleeping pills and Xanax have been suggested as alternatives to booze. I'm highly functioning though, so I stand by the tried and true. Oh the joys of traveling straight no chaser.
Opt out.
Only the US required the use of body scanners. When they came out some 10 years ago people felt they were an intrusive breach of privacy. I remember protests at airports where dozens of passengers flash mobbed airport security gates with Opt Outs. Causing massive delays and showing a civil disobedience for these new procedures. I haven't heard of a protest (they mostly happened at Portland airport) in years. Basically everyone has accepted these body scan machines for what they are. I have still never been through one. I Opt Out every time I fly in the US (again outside the country it isn't required). I've never missed a flight and I never been bombarded by whatever electromagnetic radiation they deliver. I've been heckled by travel partners about being patted down being more violating than a body scan. But just remember those things can fully see your dick, lips, piercings, fat rolls, medical implants, etc. and the personnel viewing it are behind closed doors talking about you and your beauty, or flaws. It's a government paid for Hot or Not website. What amazes me is that poor people don't travel. You don't see a dollar store after the checkpoint. You don't see cheap shit. You see Burrberry and Omega. I can't believe that rich and middle class people agree to worse conditions than what I've ever experienced on greyhound. The man at the checkpoint told me I should sign up for TSA pre screen for $15 a year and never have a pat down or body scan again. I didn't want to be overly a dick and tell him my silent protest is to create statistical reference points for how many people object to the body scanners, to our security state, and that signing up is actually a greater violation of my privacy. I don't care how other people travel. I just miss the good old days of not taking your shoes off and simply walking though an airport. Just like any courthouse in America, or any other airport in the world.
No photos right now. Will get that photo upload working ASAP.
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