So I sit here on the plane, where they don’t let any more than 3 people queue up for the restrooms, and one of the restrooms is out of order. We must clear the aisles because our bodily necessities make it inconvenient for the stewardesses — oops, make that “flight attendants” — to roll up and down the aisles with their carts, attempting to sell duty-free goods to those of us with full bladders who don’t really want the stuff anyway.
This is a Safety Precaution for all flights to the United States. So we can be politically correct, it applies to all passengers. I guess it’s too impolite to point out that, at this point in time, all passengers who could possibly have any Arabic blood in them are watched like hawks by everyone else on the plane. If any poor innocent Arab passenger has a sneezing fit on any flight with Americans aboard, I fear he’s likely to be pummeled unconscious before he has a chance to explain about his allergies.
At least, we aren’t rounding up all those of Arabic heritage and incarcerating them in detention camps like we did so blithely in WWII with those of Japanese descent on the west coast. I guess this is progress.
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