Journalist @baltimoresun writer artist runner #amwriting Chaplain PIO #partylikeajournalist

Journalist @baltimoresun writer artist runner #amwriting Chaplain PIO #partylikeajournalist
Journalist @baltimoresun writer artist runner #amwriting Md Troopers Assoc #20 & Westminster Md Fire Dept Chaplain PIO #partylikeajournalist

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

MeMo A cultural blog with Kyrie O'Connor: America declines and takes me with it, Part the 567th | MeMo | a Chron.com blog

America declines and takes me with it, Part the 567th | MeMo | a Chron.com blog


I don’t have madcap, hilarious scrapes the way The Bloggess does. I wish i did.

Instead, I have days like Friday.
The day began in Lexington, Ky., a perfectly lovely part of the planet. (Nothing I say here is a slur against Kentucky, because I don’t think airports reflect the community unless your community happens to be Hell.) My pals Carl and Charlie and I left for the airport at 7. At the airport, I slogged through security, bought a racehorse snowglobe as a souvenir and made my way to the gate. Plenty of time!

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Finally I made it to security where the thing I thought might happen happened. The TSA confiscated my snowglobe.
“Really?” I said. “I bought it at the Lexington airport. I didn’t expect to be here. I’m just going to walk down that hall and buy another. Exactly how are you making the world safer by taking my snowglobe?” And, dear reader, that is when I — not a crier — began to cry.
They took my snowglobe. “Maybe this is the low point of your day and everything gets better from here,” said the chirpy TSA woman. I hate chirpy. (Also, who actually wants to be the low point in somebody’s day?) ... http://blog.chron.com/memo/2011/12/america-declines-and-takes-me-with-it-part-the-567th/
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