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The week's question
In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Subject: Re: Insanity at border control
Date: 04/19/25 6:13 PM
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That sounds like a problem with the officers more than a Trump problem. There is absolutely no reason to be demeaning to people who are being detained.

I had a TSA agent treat me very rudely. (nothing at all like what people are going through now, but it still pissed me off)

I'm 75 and my hearing is not good. I walked through the scanner and he said go back through. He said something else I could not understand. This was repeated with me still not understanding. Finally I figured out that I had a something in my shirt pocket and that was the problem. So, fine, took it out and went through the scanner. And he gets in my face and says with a lot of attitude: "You don't listen to well do you!" I never at any point did anything but try to cooperate. I felt like asking to speak to his supervisor but thought it would probably do nothing. It is probably a boring job, but most TSA workers have been nice and often helpful. But there are those jerks who, given a little authority, just turn in to assholes. Clearly that was the case in Houston. WTF kind of training are they getting?
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