I feel that I am to blame as well. More often than not, I had viewed security as a nuisance, a largely unnecessary conflict that interfered with trying to catch flights with as little extra time to spare as possible.

It never helped that the staff at the security checks were clearly being paid on the low end of the scale, and were often seemingly less than well trained, but I nevertheless went along with and participated in the farce.

So am I going to mind being inconvenienced by whatever replacement measures are added? Not by a long shot, even if I, and everyone I know, have to re-learn how to travel.