I have been reading this forum ever since these new TSA procedures began. I vowed never to fly again unless it was an emergency. Well that emergency came this week. my mother got out of the hospital from knee replacement surgery last week and of course my stepfather had to leave town this week. Even though I was filled with dread thinking about what horror I might have endure at the hands of the TSA, I of course agreed to leave los angeles and fly to Nashville to take care of her.
So, I Flew out of lax on 1/26/11 on southwest airlines . while I was waiting in the security line I almost started to have a panic attack. I looked around trying to see if there was a way to avoid those rape-scan machines. They have the metal detectors set up in front and rape-scan machines behind and to the side of each metal detector. If you make the metal detector beep they put you through the rape-scan. I didn’t notice anyone being selected randomly to go through the scan machine.
Thank god I didn’t set off the metal detector and my security experience was uneventful. I fly back to L.A. on Sunday, so I will let everyone know what the security situation is like leaving from BNA.

My mother who has rheumatoid arthritis and 4 replaced joints now, will be molested every time she flies (she hasn‘t had the “enhanced” pat down yet, last time she flew was about a year ago) . It just sickens me to the core that the elderly and disabled bear the brunt of the TSA’s madness.