All,
Thought I'd share this incident with you, and see if anyone else out there had something similar happen to them.
Have any of you been subject to a pre-boarding "shakedown" before? Well, on a recent flight out of a certain airport, three of us (all strangers to each other) had an interesting experience.
You see, we'd all been picked to receive the "super-screening" at the gate. You know, the "please follow me, sir," followed by, "please empty your pockets, and take off your shoes. I also need to see your ID."
Well, we all three complied; after all, it was a busy flight, and we all wanted to get in the air and get home. So we emptied our pockets, took off our shoes, and pulled out ID's.
I pulled out my Army ID card, another guy pulled out a Navy ID card, and the third pulled out an Air Force ID card.
We were all three white males with short blond hair, all around six feet in height, and (apparently) just looked like potential terrorists.
We started laughing, and then compared notes. The really funny thing was that we ALL had used our military ID's to check in at the ticket counter...
Coincidence?