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Old Aug 19, 2011 | 11:02 am
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cardiomd
 
Join Date: Nov 2010
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Originally Posted by gobluetwo
You're all taking the wrong approach here. Just turn it into a game. Fun for the whole family!

final destination - "home, I wish!" or "If it's Thursday, it must be Cleveland" (which I once said on a Tuesday)
reason I was in BOS - "just passing through"
how long I was there - "not long enough!"
what company I worked for - "same as you - working for the man"
type of work I did - "consultant" (as my daughter once said when she was 4 - "daddy, that's not a real thing!")
Well, the annoying thing is that this answer may then forward you directly to the scope and grope. Knowing how most blueshirts behave this will likely degenerate into retaliatory high-screening for coy answers, or just simple racism / "Mexican-hunting", and you'll have to wait while the questioner flirts with the hot girls in front of you. Ugh.

Granted the blueshirts they approve for questioning duty will be "college-educated" and hopefully less prone to this. Similarly the gropers they call in, I've noticed, to be less hotheaded blueshirts. Most likely after the 40th person complains about the groper the TSAH is removed from groping duty. Anybody else notice this?

Even at the border, where questioning is accepted and supposedly highly trained, I have gotten into real trouble for "coy" answers. Once I was going to visit my little nephew in another country and said my purpose of trip was "to play a lot of video games" and smiled. I was dressed casually. When the agent heard me state my profession she rolled her eyes, clearly not believing me, and sent me to one of the most invasive, horrible secondary screens I have ever endured, everything short of stripsearch... I predict the same thing is going to happen in the future. The questioning, poorly implemented, is NOT a good thing.
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