There’s been a great deal in the news this week about the waylaying of another Al-Qaeda underwear bomber. To be clear, this was an intelligence operation. Neither the Department of Homeland Surveillance Security nor the TSA had any part in it. Former DHS Director Michael Chertoff’s scanners where nowhere to be found, nor were any latex-gloved TSA agents. And even if those shocking and shockingly expensive strip-scanners had been on hand, so to speak, they can’t tell balls from bombs to have caught this, anyway.
Nevertheless, the DHS and the TSA are already using this incident to further justify irradiating and molesting American citizens in airports, on highways, and in bus terminals.
Our advice to you? As Holmes says, “Avoid the radiation by all means. We shouldn’t be irradiating our citizens. Situations like this make me long for the good old Cold War. At least back then, the government knew who we were supposed to irradiate, and we weren’t planning to offer those SOB’s any patdown options.”
We realize this subject causes great stress for many travelers, and our entire goal is to sell books alleviate your stress. So not long ago, we spent the better part of our evening sipping 10-yr-old Guinda* (recently smuggled in from Spain) and discussing some creative methods of reducing your stress and lightening up the summer travel season for you and all of your fellow travelers. Along with discussing other grave matters of national security, of course.
We want to extend our stress relief to TSA employees, as well. After all, except for the child molesters and other perverts among their ranks, they are mostly people who are just as beleaguered by their duty to grab your crotch as you are. Also, how would you feel if your boss was Janet Napolitano, the suspected calorically-enhanced twin sister of Janet Reno? We’re offering these suggestions to help you make your TSA Patdown fun for you and memorable for your TSA agent. Let’s fill America’s airports with laughter and joy this summer. It’s win/win.
We’re offering these suggestions to help make your TSA patdown fun for you and memorable for your agent:
1. Pretend you don’t speak English. Whatever translator they bring you, pretend you don’t speak that language, either.
2. If you’re traveling with a church group, you should all simultaneously cry out, “Hallelujah, the rapture is coming!” and start speaking in tongues.
3. Let yourself relax and enjoy it. In fact, moan loudly with pleasure. After all, lots of folks enjoy a good groping, and your TSA agents are hard at work looking for all of your security sweet spots. Be sure to cry out with passion to let your TSA agents know how much you appreciate their security technique. When it’s all done, compliment them, and if it’s your first time, let them know it was everything you dreamed of. Meg Ryan gives us a great example for the TSA encounter.
4. Educate your TSA agent to the benefits of becoming an Amway salesman and refuse to move on until you have finished with your sales pitch.
5. If you are a melanin-gifted traveler, and you’re being groped by a melanin-challenged TSA agent, burst out singing Perry Como’s “I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas” with the broadest smile you can muster. (We recommend against any rap songs about killing authority figures.)
6. Tell your TSA agent that if her groping inspires an out-of-body experience, you will reward her with a kiss and a phone call on the morrow.
7. For men, wear a kilt with no underwear. When they get to your genitals, have a bouquet of flowers pop out of your cod purse playing Bad Romance by Lady Gaga. Then, in your best Mike Myers Scottish accent, exclaim, “Ah, Laddie, ye give such good grroope!”
If the TSA fails to offer you a complimentary groping and attempts to re-route you through a metal detector, remind them loudly that you paid full fare for this ticket, and you are every bit as entitled to a groping as any other traveler would be. And don’t worry. If you are a virgin, you will still be a virgin when they are finished. But if they offer the free cavity search, definitely turn them down.
Let’s fill America’s airports with laughter, song, and joy this summer travel season. It’s win/win. And remember, you’re in good hands with TSA.
All the best to all of you for avoiding all unwanted gropings.
Piper Bayard—The Pale Writer of the Apocalypse, and
Holmes—Student of Sex, C4, and Hollow Points
*Guinda is a traditional Spanish drink made from cherries. It will give you a serious case of the warm-fuzzies.
LOL, love it! Here’s the Saturday Night Live TSA skit that always cracks me up. Don’t know if this link will work, but here it is:
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/message-from-tsa/1261478
Thanks so much, Kathy. I love this skit. It’s a hoot!
that’s so funny!
Hilarious! Loved it!
Just spreading the TSA joy.
I’m glad I don’t fly. Hmm..maybe I should!
Lol. Let me know how that goes.
O.M.G. ROFLMAO! Stellar post…STELLAR!!
My fav…simultaneously cry out, “Hallelujah, the rapture is coming!” and start speaking in tongues or do the Amway sales pitch! HYSTERICAL!
Might be helpful to have a 3 oz. bottle of the stain remover to use for the demo. After googling “men in kilts” for a picture, I’m thinking folks will be needing it.
Canadian airport security doesn’t do the crotch grope, but I’m pretty much guaranteed a nice boob fondling every time. In theory, it’s a random selection process, but since I’ve been the only person “randomly” selected 6 out of the last 7 times I’ve flown, I have to assume there’s something about my boobs that’s irresistible to female security officers.
They’re really missing the boat here – if they were smart, they’d let me choose my groper from a group of several attractive members of the opposite sex… and offer me a chance to cop a feel in return.
There’s just no customer service these days.
Funny you should mention that, Diane. Which is exactly why Holmes and I have our plan to turn your problems into our opportunities with our Bayard & Holmes Deluxe Travel Option, Groping with the Stars. … And that definitely sounds like those TSA agents are zeroing in on something about you. It could be because you look like almost the exact opposite of the stereotypical modern terrorist, and they need to prove they aren’t profiling.
The CIA has come out and said our last underwear bomber was a double agent. I don’t fly. A TSA grope would make a trip interesting. I want to know who volunteers for a job that routinely requires you to check the personages of potential passengers?
Pretty twisted, isn’t it? … Actually, it’s my understanding that it was a leak about the double agent, rather than an official press release on the part of the CIA. Perhaps I should say the double agent that was, because he can hardly go back and be one again. I hope they string up the person or people who let it out. That man worked hard and risked his life in the most dire of ways. It sure as hell wasn’t so a few journalists and a voyeuristic public could get a thrill…. Good to see you, Tom.
One thing that’s just popped up. When did he become a double agent? Before or after he was discovered?
He is Saudi. Definitely before.
Care to elaborate on that?
Lol! TSA didn’t like my comment, so they used their super secret powers to censor it. I wont post it again, as I don’t want to come on their radar again………….
That’s okay. I handled the situation. They shouldn’t bother you again.
I’m glad I don’t fly anymore. When I did, I would make the TSA check me by hand. I figured that they’re government employees, so they worked for me, and since I paid extra for their service, I wanted my money’s worth. They probably figured that I would go along wih them and take off my shoes and belt real nice for them, just like they demanded, and I wasn’t in any mood to make their lives any easier. Now imagine what it would be like if everyone demanded a full check.
I think we should do exactly that until they get rid of those ridiculous and potentially dangers scanners that genuinely can’t tell balls from bombs and go back to metal detectors. Perhaps mix in a serious dose of common sense, as well. Every time, they harass my mother-in-law in a wheelchair without even looking at her card that verifies it’s the pins in her knees setting off the machine. I love your attitude.
I love it. But if I tried this in LAX, being from Australia, they might just stick me on the next flight home, and then I wouldn’t get to see Yosemite, Grand canyon etc. But I just love your sense of humor.
Lol. Try it on the way home.
… Thanks for the compliment, Richard.
Great ideas! Hey we need to make it fun
I think I’m taking the train and/or ship on my next long voyage.
I hear that. I definitely drive more than I used to just to avoid them.
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