Originally Posted by
RichardKenner
To me, the term "casual conversation" refers to things like "how are you doing?", discussing the weather, sports, current events, etc. It does not include questions about travel plans. I have no problem whatsoever about the former, but serious problems with the latter.
...except that the motivation in both cases is based on you (and the rest of us) assumed to be a threat to national security because we showed up at the airport to catch our flight.