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I empathize with you. I take care of my elder mom who sounds similar to your mom. |
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THIS! I traveled for work, constantly. Now I have a vehicle with 4 wheels, that I control, that is what I use. Distant just doesn't matter, drive no matter what is my way of thinking. I'm old enough to remember flying being kind of fun. No more.
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On driving. A whole lot of times it’s more dangerous (risk to be more accurate), and a huge time suck with it’s own stress that’s not so easy on the elderly.
Joint replacement and a pacemaker seem to get two of the elderly we travel with getting inspected more often. Even when storms really messed up the whole system during traveling with family elders a year ago some common sense and fair attitude made it livable. I’ve had long periods of stuck in traffic and that day in MSP airport was not that bad. Read, people watch, you can find decent coffee. For TSA and customs it’s pretty easy if you have common sense and prepare. You know the drill. Be ready. Take a breath, watch your stuff, smile, say thank you. It works. Also travel light people. I think WTH when look around and then our family of 5 is able to be gone for 2 weeks with a carry on bag each and at times 1-2 checked bags. Those checked bags are usually filled with sports gear (dive mask, our own fins, snorkel, ski stuff, and food). If you’re taking more than a few of anything stop. Look in the mirror, call yourself out on such foolishness. You don’t need more than a few items when you travel. Do laundry. Look around. You don’t see the pros and classiest travelers carrying the kitchen sink. It’s not that hard folks. Fighting it makes little sense.
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I just finished a trip to and from Sun Valley, ID from LAX. TSA experience was completely different. LAX TSA was rude to all of us in line. Bad attitude, yelling at us as if we were a bunch of donkeys as we passed through the detectors and x-ray. Sun Valley TSA, professional, friendly but not overly so, slow and methodical but not delaying progress. I will not fly out of LAX again.
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This is what happens when you can't profile people.
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If I were a bad guy interested in wreaking havoc via airplane, I'd get the elderly and infirm to do the dirty work.
In a much larger sense though, how big is the terrorist threat that we should be trading off our privacy and dignity to prevent it?? |
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I believe the OP's complaint lies primarily in the lack of people skills from particular tsa agents. I sympathize with him, that can be a bitter pill to swallow when your loved one is on the receiving end. I would recommend he voice his complaint to tsa. No guarantees but it may make a difference. |
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Come on folks, you've got to be able to think like the enemy, that "old lady" could just as well had a bomb strapped to her knowingly or unknowingly. I mean your dealing with guys who had box cutters and somehow foiled the most sophisticated military ever and were able to fly 747's unmolested right into building 7 and hit the pentagon with a cruise missile. You can't fool around when your dealing with people like that.
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In my humble uneducated opinion, it seems that the risk of dying from a global asteroid strike is a bit too high. I occasionally hear about people dying from insect stings, lightning strikes, shark attacks, mass transit accidents or earthquakes, but it has been a long time since I heard about someone dying from an asteroid strike.
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OP, sorry to hear your story. But, we are victims of our own circumstances. This is a result of inclusionism.
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