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I only fly when it's absolutely necessary, but I've noticed one really irritating detail. The slim things dressed in tight clothes have a real advantage these days.
Those of us who wear baggy clothes or dress in more than one layer, get wanded, pulled aside, asked to take off layers so the TSA can verify that we're not hiding something underneath. The routine is such that you'd better be prepared to show some skin!
But god help you if you should let them know you don't like it, or even worse, if you should interrupt their spiel as they recite how important it is to our national security that they verify that you are really as bulky as you appear, and that it's flab, and not an explosive belt making you look like that!
