I fly very regularly. I have often felt the urge to spit in someone's face. In fact I would go so far as to say that the only times I have ever felt like committing acts of physical violence have been in an airport. I think they gather all the morons in the world together and train them in bloodymindedness and make them work in airports. To compound the issue, there aren't "enough" morons working in the airports, so you get massive queues. It's the same the world over but they are a bit brighter in JFK.
Have you ever been told that you can only carry on one bag? So you buy a bag big enough to contain the two teeny weeny bags you have, which still fits into the little bag-sizer device and STILL they insist you have to check one of them in?
And please don't even enquire into the absurdities that airport staff can get into over a tube of Lancome Juicy Fruit lipgloss.
"Ah you can't take that on"
"Oh but I thought I could providing I'd bought it in a duty free"
"Ah well you need a receipt see"
"Oh here's the receipt, I thought you might need it"
"Ah well I can't read the receipt. It's in chinese."
"That's the only receipt they gave me. I've flown in from Beijing"
"Ah well I can't read it you see"
Now I'd like to have screamed "I am NOT FUCKING RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR LITERACY PROBLEMS" and spat in his eye, and it took real self-restraint not to.