TSA is just getting silly

[Second]

If you can spell your name you can get a ged. I got mine when I was 18, it was way too easy. It was either take the ged or do an extra year of high school to make up all the gym I ditched. I'm sorry, it was just to early in the am for me.

I think you can get it earlier than 18, right? I remember a friend getting one after her sophomore year, or 16. An extra year JUST for gym? Man that's a lot of skipping gym.

[dYn4mic]

Its a long, long, LONG story...(and day..)
But last year after toorcon, Two friends of mine and I were flying out of the Long Beach Hellhole of an Airport... I had my laptop with me and in a big hurry (catching our flight at the LAST minute, I forgot to take it out of the bag (no signs around, and i was in a hurry)... The TSA people freaked out, jumpy when I tried to show them it was just a laptop, and then annoyed when they wanted to "run additional tests"...My friends were annoyed, but they ran to try to keep the gate open... While I was standing with my shoes off after a pat down, watching the TSA lady run the little test wand all over my laptop, she then places the swab into another machine which beeps at her and she looks suprized, she then takes out a red binder (couldn't see what it was called)....I was standing pretty close trying to hurry her up... She turns to me and says:
"Sir, I need you to step back and clam down... Your laptop has just tested positive for explosives".
After calling her supervisor and freaking out all her fellow TSA people, and the others in line... My friend returns to tell me the gate just closed.. He can't believe what is happing to me, and we both just shake our heads in disbelief.. She the proceeds and re-tests my bag and my laptop, set it through the X-ray machine 2 more times... and finally after taking a ton of information and filling out a huge report.. let me go....
Thankfully jet blue was great, and the admin of the airport held the plane (not just because of us, they had some other issue, plus we already had moved to this later flight because of a ton of other travel problems).
Conclusion? Don't rush the TSA people, fly jet blue and be sure to take your laptop out of its bag!

[hackajar]

I think you can get it earlier than 18, right? I remember a friend getting one after her sophomore year, or 16.

In Califorina you can get your HS proficiency at 16. It's half way between GED and Diploma. It allows you to go to Community College or Trade Schools before you turn 18 (as this is min requirement for both).

An extra year JUST for gym? Man that's a lot of skipping gym.

Somebody is hiding something, they have summer school for people who missed by 1 or 2 classes to get HS Diploma without having to attend an entire simister of classes next year.

[nulltone]

Its a long, long, LONG story...(and day..)
Two friends of mine and I were flying out of the Long Beach Hellhole of an Airport..

I've used JetBlue out of Long Beach over a dozen times in the past year, and I'm really glad I've never run into anything like this. Yeah, the TSA people are incredibly annoying, and it seems like the majority of them couldn't even pass a GED exam. But I don't have a personal horror story, yet.

[TheCotMan]

But I don't have a personal horror story, yet.

The worst I've had was to drop trou' in public when I was found to be carrying Lock Picks (half way down that post.)
Put your picks in your checked luggage, or everyone will get to see if you prefer boxers, briefs, or "Commando"

trou' : slang for trousers

[AlxRogan]

The worst I've had was to drop trou' in public when I was found to be carrying Lock Picks (half way down that post.)
Put your picks in your checked luggage, or everyone will get to see if you prefer boxers, briefs, or "Commando"
trou' : slang for trousers

I would have gladly dropped trou if I wasn't sure that they would have locked me up.

Last year I'm leaving Kansas City, MO after a week long business trip. I've got a full laptop bag of gear, and this is just after the TSA started "suggesting" that you take off your shoes. I've had some foot troubles, so I declined to do so. They stood me off to the side for the usual wand thing, then this contractor for TSA, one of the few airports that still did this, stuck his hand down the front of my pants to check behind my belt buckle. I tried to fold down my waistband of my pants, he just stuck his hand in lower. About the time he starts to tickle my pubes, I get _really_ loud, and he finishes up and I walk away. I go and rail at this guy's supervisor and he just says, "Sorry sir, take it up with the TSA." Now this is an older airport that was not prepared for the security regs after 9/11, so they had little alcoves at each set of gates, where they had the scanners setup, but all the restrooms were outside the "secured" area, so I had to go through this again when I had to leave to go to the head. Like I said, I was unbuttoning my pants when he stuck his hand in my pants the second time, but I think he figured out I wasn't playing so he just moved me on.

[TheCotMan]

Like I said, I was unbuttoning my pants when he stuck his hand in my pants the second time, but I think he figured out I wasn't playing so he just moved me on.

Gah! Your story is worse than mine. You can only hope he washes his hands between each "inspection."

[Voltage Spike]

The worst I've had was to drop trou' in public

At first, I thought you meant this in the figurative sense (as in, "nearly crapped your pants"), but then I realized you meant it quite literally. If intentional, kudos on the double meaning.

PS: Congratulations on reaching a 4-digit post count.

[TheCotMan]

At first, I thought you meant this in the figurative sense (as in, "nearly crapped your pants"), but then I realized you meant it quite literally. If intentional, kudos on the double meaning.

In the words of Sgt. Schultz from Hogan's Heros, "I Know Nusssing! Nuhhhhhhssssing!"

[Siviak]

At least in California...a GED is basically the equivalent to being able to speak the English language..and in some cases, not even that. The stoner/pot-head kids that drop out and waste their life can easily get a GED by taking a test that is almost on a 4th grade level. It's not much.

I know what a GED is.. but they ask for a GED or equivelent, that is what scares me.. high school diploma or equivelent means "GED A-OK" but I would like to kow what is lower than GED

[Second]

but I would like to kow what is lower than GED

In Califorina you can get your HS proficiency at 16. It's half way between GED and Diploma. It allows you to go to Community College or Trade Schools before you turn 18 (as this is min requirement for both).

Maybe that's what you were thinking?

[Abby_Normal]

Somebody is hiding something, they have summer school for people who missed by 1 or 2 classes to get HS Diploma without having to attend an entire simister of classes next year.

One or two classes, sure. But I blew off gym for 4 years running. I just didn't believe they'd really keep me back over it. I was wrong.

I was also pissed off becuase they wouldn't give me credit for my dance classes. They would give you a gym credit for taking outside dance lessons, but they said raqs sharqi didn't count. Morons.

[hackajar]

One or two classes, sure. But I blew off gym for 4 years running. I just didn't believe they'd really keep me back over it. I was wrong.

How wack is that! They only required 4 simesters of PE (or related) at my HS.

[Second]

How wack is that! They only required 4 simesters of PE (or related) at my HS.

Well maybe she had the same situation, but since she said she blew off all four years, skipping the first two would make it mandatory for the second two, hoping that she would pass the required two years, or four semesters.

[Abby_Normal]

Well maybe she had the same situation, but since she said she blew off all four years, skipping the first two would make it mandatory for the second two, hoping that she would pass the required two years, or four semesters.

In my hs you had to take gym every semester for all four years. I think you got one semester off to take health class, hard to recall, it was a long time ago.

Gym was always to early for me to deal with. Before 10am all I wanted to do was sit somewhere quiet and drink coffee and read my paper. But it seemed like I was always getting first or second period gym. Besides, changing for gym always meant getting mocked for my uber pale skin, lack of tits etc. Not my idea of a good morning.

I was an active kid, took dance classes, rode my bike all over the place and played sports with my friends. I didn't need gym on top of that. Not like kids today. I never saw so many fat kids before! My neighborhood is crawling with waddlers, kids and adults.

How can New Yorkers be so goddamn fat? We walk everywhere!