an HOUR from ferry to passports in portsnouth last night - are we really terrorists?

[LaCod]

there we are white gap/boden clad men holding balckberrys, women holding the fort, to haev our passports scanned.
fgs i think thet are barkign up the worng tree

I had a similar thought when I queued to get through the security at the Hampton COurt Flower Show. Twas mostly elderly Surrey ladies with american tan tights and sensible shoes.

We were all very stoic and didn't make the "Do I look like a terrorist?" retort because presumably not all terroists look like terroists and anyway we are British and quite good about queueing for pointless reasons.

So bizarre when we took the shuttle between england and france..nobody has checked our passport, I was surprised

Good holiday?
We had same coming into Poole - docked at 10.30pm, left ferry terminal at 11.30pm. Bizarre, as the French checked passports before boarding anyway.

I cried last weekend after clearing check-in and security at Manchester airport

was tested at check-in on whether I knew my dc's dates of birth (surely if I'd been planning to abduct them I would have memorised the dates )

then we were sorted into the 'shoes off and half-undressed' security queue (there were 4 normal ones and one super-check queue of sorts) by a security man who obviously thought it'd be a top laugh to make the family with three small children, one of whom had been tantrumming continuously whilst queueing and one who is obviously disabled, have to get all their kit off...

had my bag fully unpacked and searched, at which point the security lady found three juice cartons - meant to be consumed pre-security but forgotten because ds screamed and screamed and screamed whilst dd1 cried about not getting the latest Jacqueline Wilson book...
was treated as thought I'd been attempting to smuggle hydrochloric acid and not three innocent smoothies still in their Boots bag and told how lucky I was that she'd just bin them and not tell her superior...

Walked away from security desk and promptly dissolved into tears - not something I am prone to I must add. It was just the whole experience of being treated like a criminal from the moment we checked in

came back throu Stanstead with ds on a passport with his photo at 3 months (he's now 4 yrs)...is this your child? Nope, thought I'd just pick him up...
where have you flown in frim? Total mental blank at this moment (knew it was Spain, but damned if I could remember the airport) - dp can take him next time.....

i agree totally
surely hti sis an utter waste of resources?
they must realsie that I am obvuously nOT a terrorist..>adjust pince nez>