Save the World From Bomb-Wielding Grandmas

We're not big fans of airport security. We know, we know, post 9/11 reality and we must put up with whatever to make the world safe for democracy and all that. And we'd be down, really, if the measures made sense but they don't. They're all pretty stupid, actually. Like that liquid ban which was done after that alleged plot involving liquid explosives. That's a total joke because the reality is that in order to build the bomb the terrorists would have to have created some sort of chem lab in the airplane in order to build it. We just don't see that working And don't even get us started on the whole shoe thing. If we ever ran into the alleged shoe-bomber, we'd personally beat the snot out of him for making it so we had to take off our shoes everytime we boarded a plane. Talk about dumb ass.

But because we all have to go through the rigmarole, we all have experienced the silliness of it. In our trip back east, we saw perhaps the silliest thing we have ever seen going through the lines, that being an old lady in a wheel chair being wheeled through the line so she too can through the metal detector. But sending granny through wasn't enough. They also made granny take off her shoes as she went through.

Now, of course, we're thinking what are the chances wheelchair bound granny is going to be a terrorist? We're also thinking what are the chances that wheelchair bound granny has an explosive device deep in her special orthopedic shoes? Not bloody likely. Not that we're experts in all of this, but we're pretty sure little old ladies don't fit the profile of hijackers. And if they were, the only thingwe'd see them doing is commandeering the plane to go to Florida. That beat our previous security story of some old guy with a pacemaker getting the magic wand treatment because they were afraid the metal detector would screw up the pacemaker.

It's all so stupid.

Still, we have to say that despite it all, the security lines at SFO are pretty good. They get you through fast without too much of a wait. In fact, it's pretty darn smooth.