Hi,

I've noticed that before checking in for any intercontinental flight out of Europe, some goon always asks you stupid questions and then puts a sticker on your passport.

I don't have a problem with airlines hiring these people to make sure that no "weird" individual ends up on board (even though I do have a problem when their questions become a little too nosy). After all, if you look at the conditions you agreed with when you purchased your ticket, it is clearly stated that they reserve the right to deny transportation to anyone.

What annoys me is that the afore mentioned goons place those stickers on the outside of your passport without even asking if you mind. Well, I am of the strongest impressio. Than that the strong glue used on those stickers ruins the outside of my passport. That is why as soon as they place a sticker on my passport, I take it off, touch it a little to reduce the strengths of the glue and put it back on my passport not to have problems afterwards.

Where is it written that in order to be taken from point A to point B my passport has to be treated like that? Passports are usually property of their issuing governments and technically some governments have the right to "get upset" with their citizens if they mistreat government issued documents.

I know that to most of you this might sound as a really silly problem. However it really upsets me.

Does anyone share the same feeling?