TSA Agents Need Some Valium
Heard by GayPatriot at Charlotte-Douglas Airport, Security Checkpoint C/D at 3:15 PM on Tuesday:
“Son of a bitch! I’m tired of working this damn checkpoint.”
Those words of welcome were shouted by a female TSA agent who had been very nice to me just seconds before while she scanned my CPAP machine. But obviously the meds had worn off.
The most amazing part of this was that despite 30 passengers hearing the loud outburst, the TSA Supervisor just 10 feet away seemed to be deaf.
Trust me, I didn’t do it! But it does appear to becoming a pattern! Maybe the CPAP machine sucks brain cells out of government bureaucrats. (I feel an oxymoronic joke coming on…..)
-Bruce (GayPatriot)
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Sorry to go off topic, but if any of you get the Ellen Degeneres show in your area, please try to watch it today. Ellen interviews TR Knight, the Grey’s Anatomy actor who came out after a co star called him a “fa****”. He really handles himself with such class, even though he’s obviously petrified about what has happened to him thanks to his idiot co star. We always talk about not having any real gay role models. Well, he’s one of them.
Comment by Carl — January 17, 2007 @ 10:14 am - January 17, 2007
I can almost understand the TSA screener’s comment.
Can you imagine standing there, day after day, pointlessly sifting through passengers’ baggage and being directed to feel up little old ladies?
Add to that the zillionth time some induhvidual shows up with a toy gun, pocket knife, or institutional-size jar full of shampoo (despite all the warning signs and YEARS of press) and then proceeds to argue (and hold up the line) as if the screener can make exceptions?
A job like that could make someone wish for a cubicle job.
Comment by Robert — January 17, 2007 @ 6:40 pm - January 17, 2007
Can they get the valium from Canada?
Comment by sean — January 17, 2007 @ 9:13 pm - January 17, 2007
#1. That’s Ellen Degenerate, if I recall correctly. And don’t Hollywood gays have two strikes against them, or three?
Comment by sean — January 17, 2007 @ 9:15 pm - January 17, 2007
#2
Know what always fascinates me? I was working for Continental on 9/11. I remember all the wailing and gnashing of teeth that we needed more airport security. Well they got it and there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth because there was too much security.
You’re damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.
Comment by ThatGayConservative — January 17, 2007 @ 11:33 pm - January 17, 2007
#5 – Beats working for United. Bruce could tell you volumes about THAT airline…
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — January 19, 2007 @ 3:37 pm - January 19, 2007
I’m not really all that suprised. The same stupid, surly, and arrongant clowns who were once private sector employees now work for the feds. Yeah Big Suprise there!
Comment by Boots Webb — January 19, 2007 @ 5:28 pm - January 19, 2007
Let’s see…for as important as security allegedly is, the person who scanned you most likely may not have a high school degree and there is a more than better chance that a custodian in that airport makes a better salary than she does. Let’s join this with the fact that even though warnings appear flashed across the world, idiots continue to bring dangerous (knives, guns, etc) with their carry-ons, not to mention not-so-dangerous items and that person has deal with those idiots, even though they were warned about 30 times before they got to the check point.
Perhaps if you travel so much and you have the financial means, you should enroll in the “Clear” system (or whatever it’s called), so that you won’t have to be bothered by those poor, uneducated, medicated folks.
Comment by Kevin — January 22, 2007 @ 8:33 am - January 22, 2007
#8 – Sounds rich coming from someone who also seems to be poor, uneducated and medicated.
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — January 23, 2007 @ 3:47 pm - January 23, 2007