airport theater of the absurd

I’m sitting in the Newark airport waiting to board my plane, and when I went through security I was reminded of this nyt article about airport ’security theater’. I went through the line and stupidly forgot to pour out the 2 inches of water in my water bottle ahead of time. The agent wouldn’t let me through security, insisting that I either go outside security to find a sink to pour it out or ditch the bottle. I asked if I could just drink it up and she refused. After a little haggling she agreed to just let me back into the front of the security line after I had been escorted outside security to get rid of the water.

So she walked me out past the line to the drinking fountain, I drank the contents of the bottle, and then she took me back to the front of the line where I went through security again.

Ridiculous.

20 December 2006 | general | Comments