Originally Posted by
miamiflyer8
I miss the security situation the most. Can't stand the smurfs these days who think they are law enforcement.
And yet, despite NOT spending trillions of dollars or using the Fourth Amendment as toilet paper, security in the 80's wasn't incompetent.
[Anecdotal evidence alert]
Once in 1981 my mum had a steak knife in her purse (why?!) when we went to pick up my dad, and the retired sheriff's deputy at the airport found it right away and held onto it until we came back out. His name was Glenn, and he once let me use his radio when we were waiting for a delayed flight. I am pretty sure that he spent most of his time smoking unfiltered Camels and reading Western paperbacks all day in a chair tilted back against the wall at the entrance to the passenger terminal, yet somehow we weren't less safe.