This article is about a man who’s been working at the United Nations for the past 20 years. He has been a common flier since he was 6 years old and feels that the airport almost is his second home. He tells about the rapid excessive developing towards airport security. He has a friend who simply denies flying anymore, because he’s so sick and tired of the routines about taking off his shoes, the frisking and that bleeping wand pushed into intimate places.
Now he has merely chosen to wear slip-on-loafers.
He tells about people who unexpectedly always seem to be selected for more painstaking secondary screening - for instance aged grandmothers.
He has experienced a mother bringing breast milk in a bottle for her baby, who was ordered to drink it to prove it wasn’t some kind of poison.
He feels sorry for the 6-year-olds who fly today.
2) An outline of the various attitudes to airport security.
In ‘Spread your legs and smile’ it seems that he’s fed up with all of those ridicules checks. In his youth it was nothing like today’s examinations at all. Every time he thinks he has done the right thing about leaving nail clippers at home, wear slip-on-shoes and bring an almost empty hand luggage, some new problems occurs. You have to loosen your belt, shed your jacket, spread your arms and legs and prepare to almost be violated. Then you also have to smile through the whole trial.
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