Thursday, April 15, 2004
Cross “Perish” Off the List
So it was last year, in June, that I had a weird and asymmetrical experience getting my baggage screened in Wilkes-Barre - Scranton’s Avoca International airport, long known as the central focus of the Transportation Screening Authorities’ national security concerns as related to unauthorized transport of cheap beer and trucker hats. I thought the situation was amusing at the time, and then they left me with an hour and a half in the waiting crypt in which to write up a hi-larious sendup of their arbitrary behavior toward me. I posted it here.
It was only last month that I got a response from the TSA, or from their unauthorized representatives: I am writing to ask permission to repost your blog article “Feeling Secure,” located at {location}. I would like to post your article on my “Screeners Central” website. I am willing to include whatever appropriate attribution you require, including a link to your blog.
Thank you for your consideration.
{name}, Screeners Central
http://www.tsa-screeners.com
I’m not sure how I missed seeing this for close to a month but last night I unearthed this message while excavating my inbox, and wrote back with magnanimous permission. As a result, I am now not only a published author, but I have even been published by someone other than myself. I may not be in anybody’s anthology but at least the good people who sneak other people’s illicit drugs into my luggage will know that I’m a big celebrity.
If only I could get the same response on that article I wrote about strippers, now.... I’m sure there’s some kind of quid-pro-quo that would be of value to me. A link to the blog has been so done already. Anything else on offer today, my friends?