This happened earlier today, but I had to wait to post it till now because of a ban award.
Was at the airport for thanksgiving travels, going thru security. Our story centers with the millimeter wave (MW) machine. That's the machine where you walk in, put your hands up, and the thing spins around you. When you step in, the minimum wage TSA worker hits a red button for female and a blue button for male. When I went in they hit the female button, it scanned me and then it beeped. On the screen, it put a box around my crotch. Fricking great.
The poor TSA agent then had to very invasively frisk me. I'll spare you the details. For whatever reason they're really into the frisking at O'hare, compared to other airports where they'll often just give it a single pat or wave me thru. I don't understand why these things have to be so sensitive; they've also detected one of my friend's pads too and she had to get the whole pat down. They're an egregious violation of privacy.
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Would you rather have them hit the male button? I've never had issues with the body scan, but I did once confuse a Danish security agent when I was traveling with a large number of clocks.
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Cool clock, ResneedingSyndrome. Want to bring it to the White House?
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Thinking about just yelling "MALE" when i get in the scanner next time
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