The Last
our opinion: COLUMN
BY MARK BROWN
Word
Inconveniences and Annoyances
FEBRUARY 2016
PA R K E R C O U N T Y T O D AY
J
ust returned from a business trip, and of course that
meant a visit to D/FW International Airport. Once
again, the great TSA completely ruined what would
have been an otherwise somewhat bad day at the
airport.
You’d think with the amazing technology we have
today, that the TSA would have progressed somewhat since 9/11, but nooooooo. I mean we have the
iPhone, which is the Swiss Army Knife of communication devices. Who would have ever thought we
would have a phone with a compass, a flashlight,
camera, bottle opener, fingernail clipper and hacksaw? I never would. And now we might have a selfdriving car. Wow!
At gate C-30 D/FW International Airport,
American Airlines terminal, we were subjected to
a loud, rude, crude, morbidly obese person barking and yelling orders to passengers in a manner
that would have appalled a concentration camp
commandant.
Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against
morbidly obese people, but if this is our last line of
defense against another attack of terrorism, we as