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Doug
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posted 20 November 2007 11:38 AM      Profile for Doug   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Or at least twice about wearing an underwire bra during such travel. It's fortunate that there's no such garment (that I can think of) for men.

http://tinyurl.com/yod62n

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The guard puts down the wand and starts a thorough manual search. She doesn't ask me to take off my shirt -- though I'd almost rather she did.

Instead, she slowly, methodically palpates every millimetre of my underwire, starting with the poky bits under my armpits, making her way around to my sternum, feeling carefully, one presumes, for suspicious lumps or gaps. Next, she takes my two breasts, one in each hand, and weighs them carefully, like a shopper trying to choose the right mangoes.

"Balanced," she mutters. "Nice balance."


Eeeeewwwww...


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jester
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posted 20 November 2007 01:15 PM      Profile for jester        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
The American airport security types are the only ones I've run into that give passengers attitude.

The rest of the world goes on about its business in a professional but easy-going manner while the Yanquis overreact to everything. Self important private security minions saving the planet from terror. Except for the kind the US exports,of course.


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Michelle
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posted 20 November 2007 01:41 PM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Lordy. That description sounds like the plot to a cheap porn movie. Cue the guitar twang and the synthesizer! (As the guys behind her in line are mentally composing their lusty letters to Penthouse while watching this whole thing go down...)
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Sineed
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posted 20 November 2007 03:18 PM      Profile for Sineed     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
When I wore an underwire bra for a flight to Florida, the guy with the wand gestured to a woman customs officer, who handled me so quickly, I'd say from reading this account that I was ripped off

Some guys might, on reading this story, start wearing a metal cup to the airport.


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Abdul_Maria
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posted 20 November 2007 04:07 PM      Profile for Abdul_Maria     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by jester:
Self important private security minions saving the planet from terror. Except for the kind the US exports,of course.

what he said !

quote:
Originally posted by Sineed:
Some guys might, on reading this story, start wearing a metal cup to the airport.

gynecomastia has its advantages.

once my yoga instructor suggested that i wear a bra. i don't think he was entirely kidding.

still, after reading all this, trains and buses sound a lot more appealing. but then - i don't know what security measures are standard on American trains these days.


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