Spine chilling

Posted on Tuesday 26 June 2007

Does this make anyone else’s spine crawl? “Be discreet

It’s far too creepy, and what makes it even creepier is that all of us who take a plane, if we’re paying attention, follow these rules or something like them for ourselves.

But this:

“When you go through security, treat it like you’ve been pulled over for speeding,” advised Brett Snyder, who writes an online column about air travel at CrankyFlier.com. “Be polite, answer any reasonable questions, and just keep thinking about being done with it so you can move on with your life.”

is simply advising you to think and act like you’ve already been accused of breaking the law, and I thought this country was founded on concepts quite the opposite of that.

Hey, I could be mistaken, seems like lots of things are getting reinterpreted these days.


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