Rookie Flyer

For as long as Shannon and I have known each other, we never had to fly in an airplane. We have both flown in an airplane before, however, it's been several years! I think the last time I had to fly was in 1997.

Shannon told the story of his experience going through security on the way home, and it sounded like he raised a ton of red flags with TSA! It was funny to hear because he sounded like a "rookie flyer." First, he put his laptop bag on the conveyor belt at the security checkpoint and the TSA agent asked him about having a lock on the bag. He asked if he needed one and she said that there are "TSA approved" locks that he can buy. He asked her if it was required that he have on because "it's not like it's going to blow open, right?" I guess she kind of raised her eye brows at that but didn't say anything. Then he asked her how he can get to Gate A (he was at Gate C). She asked him why and he told her that he had some friends he wanted to meet up with. As he's telling us the story, I am thinking he must be raising all these red flags with her, he's saying all the things a possible terrorist could say! LOL I am just glad he didn't say the B-O-M-B word in an airport! I can't imagine what the would have done to him then... After he asked her about how to get to Gate A, that's when she pulled him aside to say that he would need additional screening! LOL