Flying with no ID
The doc and I had a great time in Las Vegas- at least until our car was pulling up to McCarran Airport and I realized that I lost my driver license somewhere at the Wynn. He started nagging me about my unorganized purse and teased that he would at least make it home. I replied that my purse was very organized considering (besides, it was intoxication, not organizational skills that caused me to leave the ID in a blackjack pit) and no ID is required to fly. He thought me wrong on both issues and we bickered all the way through the security line for terminal D.
When we arrived to the podium at the front of the first class line, the doc scooted through while I explained to the TSA agent that one could fly without a valid ID after submitting to a secondary search. A supervisor came over, said I was correct, marked up my boarding card and sent me through an empty security area. Guess who got through the line easier. Me. I didn’t have to pull out my liquids or anything.
So, from now on and until they make those x-ray machines the norm for security, I’ll be flying (domestically anyway) without ID. Of course, once those machines become the norm I will either route through cities without them or quit traveling altogether. It’s one thing to laugh about the things TSA might see, but it’s quite another to risk having your piercings (or tampons, catheter, colostomy bag, etc.) removed by overzealous assholes working for TSA.
Our experience was exactly the same at McCarran when Mrs TWC lost her id. Except TWC didn’t skete through.
I ’spose we were fortunate that TSA did not find the stickers we got from Drew Carey:
I heart being treated like a criminal by TSA
So, all that I have to do is tell those TSA people that I want to submit to a secondary search they pull me aside for another search and let me go about my business?