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Mamaw and the TSA

My 88 year old grandma and my mother arrived for a 2 week visit last night.  Mamaw hasn't flown since pre 9-11, so while they waited in the security line and my mother told her to remove her shoes she was a bit puzzled.  My mother joked with her that she would be singled out and searched since she hadn't been on a plane for 7 years. 

When Mamaw passed through the scanner she beeped. ''I have artificial knees." She informed the unsmiling TSA agent.  Back through the scanner.  BEEP.  She then had to step out of line for the hand held scanner.  Her knees passed the test but she beeped repeatedly around her waist.  It must have been her bruised chin and roughed up nose from a fall earlier in the week that made the TSA think her to be a travel risk...so she headed behind the screen for a "behind the screen screening".  She was there a long time because she was also a guinea pig for a new TSA agent.  I'm glad to say Mamaw passed the test. They never did resolve the waistline beeping.  I suspect it was remnants of the heavy dough from her New York pizza lunch.

I'm so glad little old ladies are searched before they fly.  I can't wait to see what happens on her return trip.  I'll keep you posted.

Bittersweet

6:51 PM, Tuesday, July 29, 2008 .. Posted by OldSchoolMarm

I'm so sorry that you guys are so far from one another and visits therefore are not as common as all of you would like.
Thank you so much for your kind birthday wishes and stopping by.
Blessings, Julie