Originally Posted by
FliesWay2Much
I flew out of IAD last night. I was in the premium line and arrived at the ID checker/SPOTnik. He was a young Millennial-age kid who looked like he started shaving last week. Looks at my boarding pass after a purfunctory look at my passport. Conversation:
SPOTnik: "Is Vienna your final destination?"
Me: "As far as I know..."
SPOTnik: "Where are you staying?"
Me: "I don't discuss my travel plans."
SPOTnik: "Oh, OK... Just wondering because my dad was stationed there in the military."
End of conversation... I must have flustered him because he had to make up the last statement. Austria has been non-aligned since WWII, so the only way his dad could have been stationed there was if he was one of a few at the Embassy.
I really hate having to be this way with another human being, but, it is the TSA..
Why am I getting a mental picture of the pimply faced teenaged kid with the voice that cracks on the Simpsons?
"I don't discuss my travel plans." Beautiful, and so simple.
Many he meant that his Dad was stationed in Germany and he just didn't know where Vienna was. That would be my bet.