[Ditter]

I fly as little as possible, I haven't been on a plane since last Oct. I have a friend who lives in Mexico flies all the time to Europe and the US. I asked her last week about the pat downs and security invasions and she shrugged her shoulder and said there haven't been any. Yet I come on FR and there is a thread going on all the time. I want to hear some personal stories from freepers about the invasions that have happened to them recently.

[Yaelle]

Luckily, because I was pregnant so would have to submit to the crotch pat, the last two airports I flew to did not have their x ray booths in operation. The booths were sitting there (amortizing??) but not in use those days. I fly out of an airport that doesn’t have those machines, Yet.

[sheana]

In February I was flying back to LAX from a small regional airport in Arkansas. They only had the walk through xray scanners. I had on a tank top (no bra) with a pull over sweatshirt over it. When I was ready to walk through the scanner the TSA gal asked me to take off my sweatshirt and I politely said no. She motioned me to come on through. Once I got through she told me they were going to do a pat down ( I knew it was because I refused to take off the sweatshirt). I told her no, they were not going to pat me down and quite the polite argument ensued. Finally she just patted down my top back, under my arms, and neck area.
I got lucky because it was a small regional airport. Had it been LAX I probably would have wound up in jail. Lol