Liam - same here.
Still, I can think of days where half of the staff are laughing with one another and talking about weekend. Last time I was in Sydney one of the female guards was telling a male one he should not be working at the airport but be a model instead. Now I am not disagreeing with her sentiment (I am sure he was very aesthetically pleasing in that '
Look at me. I am pouting. I am shirtless holding a saxophone. Shop at the Gap" kind of way) but it all seemed too jovial. Don't get me wrong - I hate when people at my workplace do the same around the cubicles Work is for work. Especially when you are front of house. Especially when airline/airport security is involved. Whether
real or
public-perceived - there are dangers and a thorough security check, whilst annoying as hell gives us a sense of ... well...
security.
I have no problems with airports rescreening and ensuring safety. Sounds lame, but there is a tiny (admittedly very tiny) possibility that the screen was shut off for the sole reason of getting people through. It would not be unheard of to hear of such news. For those people who are manly enough to take the risk to allow whomever onto an aeroplane, and step up themselves if the need arose - congratulations on your balls of steel. I am not like you. I fly a lot (no where near any of you good people) and I am a nervous flyer each time. The last thing I want is to think that there was minimal security to get on board. I would be the man who the stewards had to slap across the face, rather than the hero who saved the day.
*Cue music: Believe it or not I'm walking on air...*"
Had airport security been lax(er) (as some people suggest it should/could) and they found a gentleman/woman with explosives in their shoes, or a nut-job with a knife (or tweezers apparently!) who wanted to cause in-flight havok, or perhaps a religious zealot who wanted to fly their plane to their homeland of Twinkleland (wherever) we would all be up in arms about how the airport/airlines don't do enough to protect public safety. I would rather travel on a system that annoys me and my fellow pax, but gives us the
luxury of complacency and thinking that we aren't a hotbed of terrorism.
Remember, it's not terrorists only - it's wankers too. The guy who threw his child off the Westgate Bridge, or people who throw bricks off of motorpasses are not doing so in the name of Allah, Jehovah, Jesus, Buddah, Vishnu or even Rumplestiltskin - but coz they are ###### in the head - we need to keep some sort of vigilance in our society. It for the very least - to help me sleep of an evening
And well, my rant is over. Who can tell I haven't slept tonight?
Nice.
