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chocolate moose
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Thu, Jul 27 2006, 8:37 am
Torah Bites has space in an office building downtown. We are meeting there monthly for many years; I have been going for 6 1/2.
With security the way it is since 9/11, each participant has to be escorted to the elevator and the door unlocked. We are many ladies and the security guards are also thre for years and year.
They know all of us. But this time, one guard wouldn't let me up until I specifically said where I was going.
It was a hot day, Rosh Chodesh Menachem Av. Now come on, between my long sleeve and sheital, what did I look like? Moslem?
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Mitzvahmom
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Thu, Jul 27 2006, 8:38 am
no I met you, you do not look like a shiksa..
Maybe it was that look in your eyes
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mimsy7420
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Thu, Jul 27 2006, 8:53 am
yesterday I was at a rally for Israel and there was thousands of people there all massed around, security people were going up to random people and asking them to see whats inside their bags. But I don't get how they decide who they are going to search. Like they would ask to see inside old ladies bags but the tall dark looking man with the black briefcase they would pass right by...
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nicole81
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Thu, Jul 27 2006, 8:55 am
He was just doing his job. Was he new? Even if they "know" you, they could probably be risking their jobs by not following procedure.
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chen
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Thu, Jul 27 2006, 9:12 am
Au contraire, maybe you look TOO perfectly Jewish. Moslem terrorists have bombed buses by dressing like charedim.
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chocolate moose
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Thu, Jul 27 2006, 9:16 am
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healthymama
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Thu, Jul 27 2006, 9:26 am
chen, I was going to say the same thing. If they only check pple who look like terrorists, it would be very easy for terrorists to disguise themselves.
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lubcoralsprings
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Thu, Jul 27 2006, 9:29 am
B"H he took extra precautions. You don't want chas v'shalom anyone with a bomb let in. In NY that seems to be standard practise.
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chen
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Thu, Jul 27 2006, 9:47 am
I always get checked, when I don't get out-and-out interrogated. I am the most harmless-looking creature: middle-aged, wimpy, short, chubby and with a dimple. (well, it used to be a dimple--it may have started a second career as a wrinkle ) Must be that fanatic gleam in my eye that I have not learned how to disguise--I always thought it was a twinkle...
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Chani
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Thu, Jul 27 2006, 10:08 am
Quote: | middle-aged, wimpy, short, chubby and with a dimple. |
could we be long lost sisters?
I have a feeling that I am on some kind of list - I travel about once a month for work and I ALWAYS but ALWAYS get pulled for the extra screening. I mean, puh-leeze, I've been working for the same company for 10 years, I've got 4 children, a huge mortgage and a big tuition bill...do I look like someone who's going to do anything other than go to yet another business meeting? That being said, I'd rather they check too many people than not enough.
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