This past weekend, F-16 fighter planes escorted a plane to Detroit International Airport because members of a family spent "an inordinate" amount of time in the plane's bathroom. Great, just another reason why I can never fly commercial.
As if the whole strip-searching idea isn't off-putting enough, there's also been the shoe thing. It seems terrorists like to pack C4 in their shoe soles or some such thing. My feet are grossly deformed to the point that I can't wear shoes on them. The back part, in the heel area, is fairly normal. But about the arch area they seem to take about a 45° turn outward, so it looks like my feet are on sideways. My medical insurance allows me ONE pair of custom-made shoes, complete with extra-depth for thick layers of orthotic inserts, per year. I am certain that if I take a commercial flight, the over-zealous inspectors will rip my shoes apart and demolish the inserts looking for suspicious substances.
And now I must also fear "spending too much time in the restroom." Will people be holding stopwatches on each other? How long is a reasonable amount of time, and at what point does your nervous stomach turn you into a suspected terrorist?
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