Hooligans Sportsbook

airport hell, and other stories.

  • Start date •
  • Replies
    70 Replies •
  • Views 5,688 Views
Follow

CaliGirlNY

Insert Witty Title Here
Since
Feb 13, 2011
Messages
5,623
Score
50
Tokens
0
Anyone else find flying to be a total nightmare sometimes? Last Christmas I got stuck in California for 4 extra days because of the huge storms on the east coast. I ended up flying from San Francisco to LA to San Diego to Philadelphia then renting a car in Philly and driving 2 hours home. I told my folks that they have to come to me this holiday, but if there's a storm that means I'm stuck with them extra long. Kind of a catch 22.

Tonight I was supposed to fly home on the redeye but it was delayed 5 hours, which means my 11pm flight was put off to 4pm. So now I'm at the airport Marriott to get some sleep and I changed my flight to the 6am to save a couple hours. Ugh.

How about you guys and gals? Any trouble with air travel? Any suggestions or secret airline tricks? Any good stories? Please tell me one of you has been on Locked Up Abroad....
 
if you're tall and sexy like me you can show up to the terminal and ask for exit row seats. I've never really had much trouble flying. Only trouble I had was flying from Heathrow to SF and I showed up an hour before and they flipped out on me and put me on a flight from Heathrow to LA 4 hours later.
 
I was strip searched in LAX soon after 9/11. Made me put on a paper bra and undies, and held me until I could get my ex to fax a few more forms of ID from Florida. He also had to get a stat dec signed that he was asserting I was the person I claimed to be.
 
CaliGirlNJ
That is crazy!!!! Why what were you smuggling? ;)
Click to expand...

haha, yeah I know right?? hardcore wankers. My first name is actually 2 names hyphenated but I never go by that except for official stuff so when the guy from work booked my ticket he just put Oksana. It didn't match my drivers licence or any of my credit cards so they wanted some form of ID that showed I also go by just Oksana. As if that makes any sense at all considering my first name is already spelled strangely. By fluke I still had a bank card from and old Canadian account that just said Oksana for whatever reason. But that wasn't good enough on it's own so they made my ex get a stat dec signed as well. Almost 12 hrs of that bullshit.
 
Total 180 for me. It used to be that I always used to get pull over to the side and questioned or even taken to the private room, but the last 2 or so years it has changed. I never get stop, I never get question, I never get frisked, they don't even send me to to sniffing or body scanning machine. Never anymore. Not sure what prompted this change, it makes no sense 50 60 year old white Americans get hassled but not me, I think it might just be body behavior leading up to the security line.
 
Last time I flew to NY I had little baggies of fun stuff crammed up under my ballsack, and I got pulled into the 360 xray thingy. But I wasn't too nervous because I was drunk and thought it was the bomb detecting thingy.

Not until I told Robyn about it later on did she remind me that it was a 360 xray machine!!! Jeeezusss Christ!!! They had to have seen them light up under my handsome ballsack, right?
 
Probably. Last time I flew with stuff I took a razor and opened 3 of those saline solution packets that you use in a netipot, then emptied them and filled them with my stuff, took a small piece of giftwrap tape, bc its totally clear, to seal the hole then marked them with a dot in the corner and threw them in a ziplock bag with a whole handful of the real ones and put it in my carrying (I didn't check a bag). Worked like a charm. And this was for an international flight.

I uses to put it in my bra or panties. Can't do that anymore with these machines. Even though I'm sure they care less bout drugs and a lot more about bombs.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.