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to do? Head for your local airport and take a seat in the ticketing area near a security screening area.
As the news-illiterate or news-phobic members of the public throng to the airport to go to grandma's house, you can be sure of a lively look at life in 21st Century America. Unlike in past years, where you got to see folks trying to argue with the TSA folks about their extra large bottles of hair products, jumbo slurpees, and the like, or trying to figure out why that change in their pockets made the metal detector beep, or why that X-Box is treated like a computer and has to be removed from whatever bag it's in, there are new things to confuse and amaze travelers. Always entertaining, the security line promises to break new records for silliness this year.
Now, everyone here on DU knows about the new screening procedures, of course, but...there will be lots and lots of people at the airport on Wednesday who have not seen a newspaper or watched a television news program for years. It's all so depressing, you know. Boring, too. Why, just today, we learned that over 50% of Americans don't know that the Republicans won a majority of seats in the House of Representatives. Of course, since less than 50% of the eligible population bothered to vote, that may not be such a surprise.
Anyhow, you can expect all sorts of witty antics as these uninformed travelers meet the uniformed TSA folks who are going to ask them to step in front of the x-ray machine so they can be seen au natural. Some will object, of course, and will be led to a place where they can put their feet on the footprints and get patted down in the new enhanced way.
I can almost guarantee that you'll learn some new phrases you may not have heard before. It should be very instructive and will pass some time learning more about human nature and why people really should expose themselves to a little news from time to time. You'll learn, too, why flying on the day before Thanksgiving or Christmas is a really, really bad idea.
Sadly, I have to deal with company that day and get ready to cook a big Thanksgiving dinner, so I'll have to skip this, but if you go, be sure to post some of the most interesting events here on DU on Thanksgiving, while your RW family members doze off their turkey and dressing.
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