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... a few things. :)

Hung out with guys worked primarily with men. I wish LS were still a guy

Me too. Except for a select few that are exceptional, most of my friends were guys.

This is terrible! Those cretins need to spend some time on the receiving end of their incompetent, insensitive brainless scans and searches. They seem to be falsely of the opinion that because they carry a wand, they have absolute power. They need to be disabused of that false premise. That was inexcusable that you went through that ordeal.
I'm glad at least the nurse had some common sense, and decency.

Good idea.

I can't fly. It's as simple as that. If I need to go someplace, I drive. If I can't drive, I don't go. We travel a lot on a big loop around the country each year. We go west in the fall and east in the spring, occasionally switching our schedule after the last time I flew anywhere.

It's bad enough that I'm in a power wheelchair, airlines HATE powerchairs, but since the TSA has came about, things have gotten really stupid.

The fool ran his wand all over me with it squealing like a pig with it's tail in a door. The he told me that I'd have to stand up since my chair was interfering with his wand. As I explained that if I could stand up, I wouldn't need the wheelchair. He actually asked me why not. Because I'm paralyzed you oaf! So he tells me to move aside and that his supervisor will come up to make a manual inspection as he clears his line.

When the "lady" comes up the hall I hear her saying "oh no, another ******* wheelchair. Like I'm deaf as well. I actually greet her pleasantly, (kindness turns away wrath - but it can't fix stupid) she first repeats her underlings test, with the same results and orders a "airline isle chair" for me to transfer into and my wife begins to assist me in transferring - these "public servants" grabbed her hands telling her that she can't come near me because she has already been screened. Like I'm carrying some deadly disease and she might contaminate them all. When she pointed out that I required trained assistance to do this safely, and they didn't have the training. They then called MORE TSA agents trying to find one who had a brain - they failed. While none of them knew what to do, the only other person there was not allowed near me. After a half hour of this circus, calling the airport nurse (who suggested allowing my wife to help me since she was not trained, the TSA supervisor allowed my wife to help me do the 2 minute maneuver.

Then the head "person" waved her wand over me and it started squealing again. No I don't have anything in my pockets, nothing in my billfold BUT I have had both hips replaced, I have shrapnel in my left leg and a chunk in my right shoulder. I inform them of this and they ask for my medical magnetic (something) card, to which I reply, huh???? We can't let you on the plane without it, you might have a bomb. I did not tell her that if I had such a bomb and set it off right there it would take at least three days to replace them all. I didn't say that, but I wanted to.....

We were then sent to a private screening room where my clothes were taken off in privacy and the nurse checked all my scars. If you have ever seen a hip replacement scar, you'll never forget it, they are l-o-n-g and wrap from above the beltline, down the side, down to just above the knee. The shrapnel scars are pretty distinctive if you've every seen them and fortunately this nurse had trained in a VA hospital and had seen some.

She gave me a letter identifying what she saw and my medical history so that we would not have so much trouble on our return leg. It list her private number at the airport and the TSA agent just called her and we flew through the inspection in LA.

As I said, now we drive and if it's cross country, so be it.

It felt like a horror story. But we'd be forced to leave the mandatory sexual trist out. Apart from my tail being exposed (yeah, you didn't THAT pic in your brain) there was none.

Wow! Can I see a book here?

File them to a point :)

I'd rather hang out with guys too. Always have. But I work with almost all women. ynark!

It’s not a surprise to me really. Historically I have usually hung out with more females than males. I don’t know exactly why that is, and there are exceptions, of course. I tend to spend my range time with male friends, unless it is daddy-daughter range day. Then I bring my favorite little lady.

The really ironic thing is that my wife has historically hung out with men instead of women.

How insane can we get?

That explains a few things.

Lol

That's a first. Scoring too many points too quickly. Not gulch points either.

I make one every once in a while. ;-p

You are truly one of the few that did. :-)

I will rob and mangle a quote from one of my favorite movies… You two are different, but your ladies, I’d take my oath on it.

Seriously, I was pretty sure from the beginning that you, NMA, and LS were all ladies.

Excellent point!

And all the rest for that matter.

That's what the second amendment's function is.

I'm having a good laugh. :-)