Everyone knows that airport security is a necessary evil in our modern world but what a pain.
Seriously don’t we all cringe when we have checked our big bags and we head towards these metal arches? So how can this be worse? Try us?
Him, Nick carries more electronic equipment than your local computer shop. Seriously you could start a small business with what he has in his bags and he’s slow. Upon reaching the security belt. There is the usual huffing as he removes belt, watch, wallet and shoes. Fleeter passengers flow past, elegantly tossing the odd phone into a box and waltzing through the detector. Then he starts carefully laying the various electronic devices into boxes before walking through, inevitably setting off the alarms for no reason but then needing to be wanded.
If this isn’t enough of a pain try watching him put himself together again.
Her, Jen used to be one of these fleet footed types, carrying minimal electronic gear not wearing enough metal to worry the most surly of security guards. Alas no longer. She removes her shoes as a matter of course now as inevitably her artificial hip joint will make the machine bleep. Then she has to wait for the female officer to be available to pat her down and run the wand across her. In a more modern development they also put her into the full body scanner feet apart hands above your head, hold 3 seconds.
The moral of this story, finish your coffee, take your time and we will see you on the other side.
Travels with Jen and Nick 