Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/04/01

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Dulles Airport
From: Martin Howard <mvhoward@mac.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 14:23:13 -0800

I think the TSA is one of the best things to happen to air travel in 
the US in a long time.  They are curteous, professional, swift, and 
they know they are doing.  The people who used to work at security 
stations before September 11th, 2001 had a tendency to stand around 
with a bored look on their face, scratching their arses, and talking 
about intimate details of their friends private lives so that everyone 
around could hear them.  More often than not, if you turned up with 
*anything* outside of three postcards or a Kodak Gold 400 
camera-in-a-box, they'd start screwing with you, simply because it gave 
them something to do.  I can't recall the number of times that airport 
security people prior to 9/11/01 left me fuming (not to mention running 
for aircraft) because they simply saw an opportunity to alleviate thier 
own boredom.  Asking for a hand inspection of film I'd more often than 
not get treated as though I'd called up the airport supervisor and 
asked him to run out for a cup of coffee for me.  That has never once 
happened with the TSA people.  They've always been fantastic.

M.

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