Alan Tegel
2 min readDec 16, 2021

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Bravo for calling this out!

Anytime I called out about this, I was gaslit into saying "don't you want America to be safe?"

I travelled every week, and as a rape survivor imagine the joy of having a male TSA agent touch your private area ...

Yep, it wasn't the regulated process stuff, because they were trying to figure shit out.

I had flights change so much every week, every week I got the dreaded SSSS on my ticket, which meant "happy days for you ... all your shit gets searched.

I even had to go to the backroom several times. It was a complete joke, but when I bitched about the fact I literally burned 20-60 minutes "every" week doing this stupid shit.

Why do you hate America.

But fucking masks ... oh no hell is here.

I have no sympathy for folks in this arena?

Shall I even go down the fact given my telecom work, I even had Secret Service try to tap my T1 line in Indiana because I had secure communications going to South Africa and Malaysia ...

How did I know they did it? My wife's father's brother ran the ISP. They were pissed because they couldn't crack my network. He chuckled, you realize you can just go to his farm and talk to him. He will probably make you coffee or offer bourbon.

Ironically that next week when I flew to SFO from IND, I was pulled aside and all my shit was searched. Missed my flight.

But Masks ....

As for travel, I stopped traveling 5 years ago, and in fact just had my first flight in 2 years to visit family, and yeah it sucked. This comes from a million miler flier ...

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Alan Tegel
Alan Tegel

Written by Alan Tegel

Lover of people, Texas Feminist Liberal Democrat, Horse Farm, High Tech Gadget ENFP Guy, and someone who appreciates the struggle of women and wants to help.

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