For non international flights, if you travel light you won't have to deal with baggage handlers. Southwest is cool cause you can bring a carry on and your back pack (so that's like 2 carry ons). I don't mind security. My problem is when security discriminates. When you let people who look like Tim McVeigh and Eric Rudolph through but give minorities a hard time that's messed up.
The last time I flew, I was going to St. Louis with the lacrosse team for the national championship tournament... and they were almost going to go without me... We go to pick up our tickets from one ticket counter, and they almost wouldn't give me my ticket because the team captain reserved the ticket for Megan Griffin - which is NOT how you spell either of my names.... but we managed to get my ticket without too much hassle. I go take my ticket to the next ticket counter and they wont take my damn ticket and they won't let me go check my baggage because my TX DL was expired. So I explain to them that my license had been stolen a few days ago and I haven't been able to go to the DPS and get it taken care of... Here's my social security card, my UT student ID, my ACC student ID, my 2 credit cards, my ATM card, my health insurance cards.... So the witch at the counter says, well, OK, I GUESS I'll let you go... You seem to be who you claim you are... Jesus woman! If I didn't match the photo on my ID, I'd understand your suspicion! But come on - it's my ID from 8 months ago!!! I go over to check my baggage and since I'm the goalie, I've got the most **** because I've got all those pads and helmets and whatnot.... It took them half an hour to go through my gear. And then I found out I was selected to have me and my carryon baggage searched - another 15 minutes. And then walking through the airport, I had to get checked and do the ID spiel through 3 more gates. And THEN they let me out of TX. The people at the St. Louis airport didn't give a fock that my ticket was misspelled, I didn't get selected to be searched every 5 feet, and they sure as hell didn't care that my license was 8 months expired!
I knew it, I knew it! All this time we have wondered what you look like and now that we know your name, I, at least, can figure it out. So, the rest of the hangout, I present to you what meggoleggo really looks like:
Manny, you're freaking awesome! I love it! Actually, Meg Griffin is pretty damn close! Now that I've died my hair almost that exact same color, and I started wearing my glasses instead of my contacts..... wow. But my glasses aren't circular like that...
That happens to me everytime I fly. The thing I hate the most is being frisked. Stay away from the package!
