Made it through security and are now at the gate waiting to board.

It’s like waiting for paint to dry. You’re excited for the new color, but all you want to do is move in and hang your pictures!

All three of us were TSA Pre-Chek. Two made it through, one was detained and shoveled to the general boarding line to undergo interrogation and clothing removal, with individual item scans, all because she had a fake knee. There must have been four individual trays and then the hand wand body scan. Ironically, they never checked the knee. There should be body scanners in TSA-Pre-Chek! In a word, NUTS!

So, after passport checks, scanners that reveal all, pat downs that invade personal space, completely dismantling carry-ons, and feeling like being on a watch-list, we made it to the gate.

The silver-lining, because of the knee, we were granted early boarding! Sometimes being fake makes you real!