I Survived Vacation!
Woman in the Middle | August 16, 2013Hello everybody! It feels like I have been gone so long from the world of blogging, even though it was only two weeks. The vacation was magnificent, but exhausting. More will be coming about that later. But I do have to tell you one very important piece of travel advice I have for women: Do not wear an underwire bra, unless having strangers in airports all over the world frisk you from head to toe is what you want on your vacation….
On the way out of the country I wore a different style bra, one that does not have underwire apparently. On the way home I wore one that has underwire. Imagine my surprise when little old me caused the metal detector to go off in the Copenhagen Airport. I wasn’t even wearing pants with pockets! I was pulled aside and a good-sized Danish woman proceeded to give me what I like to think of a free full body massage. She had nice firm hands!
It was all I could do not to giggle, a reaction I felt was inappropriate as the Danish woman checked to see if I was carrying explosives or weapons. As I have mentioned previously, the whole family has become fans of “Big Bang Theory” and there is an episode when a trip to Las Vegas gets derailed because one of the woman characters in the show cold cocks a security official in the airport who got too frisky with her hands. That was what was running though my mind as I experienced my own “frisky” moment.
When I told Hubby this later he thanked me for refraining from both giggling and cold cocking. I will wear only sports bras in planes from now on. No more underwire and the free massages that go with it!
There should be a list of things not to wear. The last time I flew they had a woman feel my belly (which is FLAT!!!!). The sweatshirt billowed out and I guess they thought I could be packing heat in there.
Your experience reminds me of the time I flew into Paris from Amsterdam. They gave us little tins of mints on the plane, and I stuck mine in my pocket. Of course the metal detector had a fit about it, so I was pulled aside and groped like I have never been groped before or since! This was the year before 9/11, but there were military people everywhere with automatic weapons, etc. I was totally confused about why I set off their alarms til they found the candy. Those people were SERIOUS and scary as hell.