Do gentlemen pack their bags?

[SwordsMaster]

Having to take off my shoes and my belt last time seemed a bit ridiculous to me though. Most people standing in the line weren't too impressed by that "safety measure" (yes, it was not because there was something special about my shoes or so, everyboy had to do it, even those wearing sandals ).

What's next? Travelling naked after a thorough examination by some two meter tall guy wearing rubber gloves?

Well, it does make one wonder, after one has surrendered his hat, gloves, jacket, belt, and shoes, why in the name of the heavens he bothered to dress in the morning...

Swordsmaster, I can assure you that in most places, answering "no" to the question about packing only begets another question or two about who did. One can then indicate one's valet standing in line at the economy class check-in.

Unfortunately, this is not the case in the United States, where officialdom has allowed power to go to its head. As I have difficulty avoiding condescension when queried by jobsworths, whilst lacking a concomitant enjoyment of invasive procedures, I no longer travel to that country.

Being as I am of a similar mind, I avoid travelling to the United States when this decision is left to my own will, and have declined to travel there for more pecuniary matters whenever possible. But alas, a man is not always master of his geographical forays, and I have been obliged by force majeure to travel there on occasion, making myself an unwilling accomplice of a system that mantains such measures in place.

Hence my inquiry about the possibility that perhaps, as an incentive to aid the financial situation, the regents of the bureaucracy will loosen these regulations that the majority of affected travellers seem to agree to consider futile.

As of the suggestions equating the airport experience with the mentioned gentlemen establishments, I must point out that the significant difference between them is that, while one might choose to attend such ludic establishments out of enjoyment for the experiences they provide, one mainly attends airports with the hopes of modifying one's geographic situation. The fact that both experiences are oddly similar suggests rather that something, somewhere has gone terribly and deplorably wrong.