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• Friday, July 11, 2008 08:41 AM

  @cliosf

  I ran into the boarding pass confusion last time I flew. It was the holidays, and they had somebody checking the credentials of everybody before they went through security - after waiting line, just before you to to the machines. I dutifully showed my pass and identification to the person at the end of the line, shoved my ticket and id into my bag and moved to the metal detector I was pointed to - at most 10' away. As I started to walk through the metal detector, I was asked for my boarding pass. I pointed out that it had already been checked. I was told I needed to show it again. I reached for my bag, which was coming out of the x-ray machine 5 feet away. No. I couldn't go through the gate to grab the boarding pass without a boarding pass. They ended up grabbing my bag, taking it back to the front of the x-ray machine, and allowing me to get my boarding pass. Then, after watching me take the pass from the bag - they ran it once again through the x-ray machine. As if I could have snuck a bomb into it with 20 guards watching me. This entire process took several minutes and left me feeling foolish as I held up the long line, simply because I assumed that they only needed to look at my boarding pass once as I went through security. It also made me angry, because I had no way of knowing that they would ask for my boarding pass twice.

  —jebldmm Read jebldmm's other letters
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