Random Thoughts

The nature of 'random' in security checks means that not everyone is selected for a particular process. Thus when the security worker ant and his female successor exhorted everyone to take off their belts - one of four items now flagged for only random removal - a robust discussion was needed. I won. When the scanner consumed my needlessly removed belt, a second discussion was needed. I won again. I was able to convince the supervisor that there is at least as much attitude on the uniformed side of the fence as on mine but they think they can get away with it. The two supervisors I spoke to today were reasonable and articulate people but the drones are so full of how they are 'keeping us safe' that they think they can get away with being obnoxious. Today's picked on the wrong person. It must be a a quirk of the English language that the words 'uniformed' and 'uninformed' are so similar. It is a shame that security do not have those nice little star badges they get in McDonalds. Admittedly the first star is only for being able to walk upright and the second for being able to construct a sentence but I doubt that many would reach five.

There is so much more to come from the first two days of the holiday but jetlag is numbing my mind so it'll have to wait.