[jhb_airlines] Re: Security!
- From: "Peter Dodds" <pdodds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: jhb_airlines@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:37 +0100 (BST)
To be honest, the hassle of modern commercial air travel really puts me off
going anywhere. Like you, it's the family that drags me off.
Peter
> *From:* Gerry Winskill <gwinsk@xxxxxxx>
> *To:* jhb_airlines@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Date:* Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:02:33 +0100
>
> With the prospect of being dragged away on holiday, again, looming
> large, I'm trying to design out some of the hassle.
>
> Previous trips have shown I'm incapable of passing through a
> security screening device without being sidelined for a search.
> Initially I thought it was because of the wire that holds parts of
> me together. Sadly, it's less exotic than that and probably
> triggered by belt buckles. Against that theory goes the fact that
> all the men who don't trigger alarms can't be holding their
> trousers up only with braces or sellotape.
>
> So, is there a non metallic belt buckle, perhaps, that I've
> overlooked?
> I've done a Yahoo search but that just seems to turn up sites that
> would like to sell me the detector.
>
> It's bad enough starting a trip, at Ronaldsway, clutching my shoes
> in one hand. If I have to hold my belt-less trousers up with the
> other, how do I recover my valuables, when they emerge from the
> microwave?
>
> The only easy solution seems to be not to travel but I've tried
> that and bear the scars to show I failed.
>
> The Yahoo search wasn't entirely wasted. One unearthed solution has
> brightened my day. On reflection, though, I don't think the best
> solution is a chocolate belt buckle.....
>
>
> Gerry Winskill
>
>
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