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JTHipster  ·  4322 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What are you afraid of?

Traveling is great right up until you have to go through the TSA checkpoint and you're told to strip off your shoes and put it on a belt.





thenewgreen  ·  4322 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Foot odor issues?

I know that the TSA catches a lot of flak for being obtrusive, obnoxious and with little impact (and it is) but it doesn't bother me. I've got it down. The only thing that I find slightly annoying is that no airport ever has enough seating near the TSA exit for puting your shoes back on etc.

JTHipster  ·  4322 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm very private about my possessions. I hate people touching my stuff, I hate people using my things, and I hate having things examined. Its the point where, even if we were dating, you aren't allowed to use my phone unless you really need to make a call or its an emergency.

That, and I have the view that the TSA is a tremendous violation of my rights against unwarranted searches of my persons and property, and the opposite of what our justice system is founded on here in the United States. Innocent is the default assumption, but when you walk through the TSA checkpoint you are assumed to be guilty until they find nothing on you.

Also I have a deep mistrust of people in uniform who aren't in the military or who aren't cops telling me to walk through checkpoints with my shoes off and everything I have with me in a bin to be scanned. Its too much the feeling of being a number, and while I'm able to accept a great deal of dehumanization, something about that is just a tad beyond the line I've drawn.

thenewgreen  ·  4321 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I can get most of that, except the phone thing. Is there any rational reason why you wouldn't want somebody to use your phone?

This doesn't qualify as a "fear", but I have a strong aversion to wearing someone else's shoes. I think it's disgusting.

JTHipster  ·  4321 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Like cell phone. House phone is all right. Cell phone though, I don't really delete my texts, and even if my conversations aren't horribly bad, or even all that private, they're still my conversations.

And yes, other people have gross ass shoes.