That's exactly how it was! My mother and I would remove our hats for the night, but kept them on our laps. There were some really stupid conventions in those days, thank god they are over with !
(Well if they aren't, they are for me!)
Recently, by their own admission, security firms have acknowledged that they are ineffective and that mostly they are there to 'reassure' flyers. I say, if that is all they are there for, stop reassuring me and just let me fly without hindrance, acknowledging that flying might be a risky business.
I am happy you feel safer, but if you really look into it, I doubt you are. You just 'feel' better about the risks. For myself, I am a realist. If I want to go from a to b, I will on a calculated risk basis and accept the fact if I find myself dying.
They should check all our socks too, they could be knotted together and used as a garrotte to kill the pilot.
Ruby, dear,
is there a problem with you Canucks?? You and Sharon have had a ball duplicating emails. See, I never did trust technology!!
Gill
Stitcher wrote:
Well, before I came to the USA on a one year contract, I worked at the Royal Free Hospital in London ( Hampstead branch). My family lived near Uxbridge ( the end of one of the Underground lines). I had a bed-sitter in Hampstead. I would go home on weekends, pick up clean laundry, and a good meal! Going back on Monday morning, I wore heels, dressy coat, hat and gloves. This was most normal in the late 50s in England.
gillian
It was the same here in the States. I remember when I was pregnant in 1959 and was yelled at by my GYN for wearing metal spike heels and tight skirts to go on the subway to work in the morning and to his office on the way home in the evening. He was sure I was going to break my neck by catching the heel in a subway grate.
I for one would never want to go back to that kind of formal dress. Lovers of jeans unite!!!
Lucille
"Cheryl Isaak" wrote>
Not to mention return to haunt you at the next wine and cheese party you attend. Dawne
"Mirjam Bruck-Cohen" > .
I agree--a pen can be used for many illegal purposes. I wouldn't have minded this man protecting the flight from a pen. If he had known it was a pen. For all he knew, it was a tampon case. I was the one who opened it up and wrote with it, to stop his "I never saw any pen that looked like that" comment.
,,,, How do you know those people weren`t
I have no way of knowing, except that his comments were loud enough to be heard, while mine weren't, and the people who operate the scanner usually pay pretty close attention to what they are doing. Of course, maybe his apparent stupidity was an act. Dawne
It was a plot by men. During the war years women went out to work in munitions factories etc. and when the men came back they wanted their jobs back. So fashion styles changed radically to more restrictive clothing, higher heels were in, pencil skirts etc. women were hobbled and put back in their place. Nowadays you see fashion trying to make women feel only an ultra slim boyish figure is desirable. Most of us could never be that shape and so 'fashion' continues to dictate to women and we are silly enough when younger to do what it (usually men) want.
Those spike heels have a lot to answer for ! I was riding up until about six months with my son and my doctor said he was washing his hands of me!
Yeeeessss sssissster !
You owe me a roll of paper towel and at least another glass of Pinot Noir dammit!
Oh really????????? Don't know why that would happen. Computer must've burped ... or had beans for supper. :-)) So sorry.
Sharon (N.B.) ................................................................
Dawne , It is Common [security] practice to ask the Checked person to open , his/her bag, and to `demonstrate what ever is being asked to be be explained. You try and fly with art objects !!!I :>:>: i always prepare documentation for those and stll it will go through the xray etc,,,
Maybe he used this words in order not to say , lady it looks suspicious to me , or what ever other idea he had ?
Maybe he was new to the job , maybe he was training somebody how to work ? and as you say maybe he played stupid , you would be surprised how many people tell more , when they think person opposite them is stupid, ,,,,,, mirjam
When I was in the WRAF , I had one posting at which I worked at CME (central medical establishment) a private RAF / joint services clinic next to the Royal Free . I lived at RAF Uxbridge and travelled on the underground daily - we had to wear 'civvies' for travelling and change into uniform on arrival at work . Jan
Oh no! I'm going to one on New Years Day!
Cheryl
Now, isn't that a bunch of coincidences! After WW2 we moved to Hillingdon ( from Surrey), and rented a house that used to be an officer's quarters for the RAF. The mantlepiece in the dining room was really scarred fron all the cigarettes that had burnt out on it! I used to shortcut through the RAF station to get into town, and Girl Guides, which was at St Andrews Church, by the Eight Bells.
later my folks built a house in Ickenham, so I would travel back and forth from there.
This, of course, was in the dark ages!LOL
Gillian
Jan Lennie wrote:
And those who strongly oppose jeans as everyday, everywhere, everything clothes please stand up in opposition. :-) We all look like beggars. And I'm weary of the California slip as blouse fad, as well. We in the north have to wear something more. Dianne
Have you shopped for jeans lately? I'm not sure many beggars could afford to wear them.
Lucille>
I'm going to add to my own note and say that I for one love wearing jeans nowadays. Having dressed in business clothing 5 days a week for many years I welcome being able to be comfortable and casual. I still like to dress up on occasion and look like the proper lady, but not too often.
I also like not having to spend a fortune on going to a professional dry cleaner every week and just tossing my clothes into my own washing machine at whatever time I choose to do it.
Lucille
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