The Gremlin vs the TSA

The Gremlin, being the type of person who will stand up to bullying, was traveling through LAX this week when he felt he needed to stand up to the injustice of the TSA. After an hour in the security line, they finally reached.... the person who looks at your ID! However, today was a 'high security' day, and everyone was subject to additional screening.

The agent began asking them questions, and as the Gremlin does, he began answering truthfully.

"What is the purpose of your trip?"

"Aw, c'mon man - I just wanna go home!" The TSA employee looked down at the pint-sized stack of justice and attempted to ignore him.

"Do you have any liquids?"

"No."

"Any water?"

"No."

"Formula?"

"NO."

"Juice?" The Gremlin perked up at this question.

"I want juice! Can you give me some!" The Gremlin was now approaching the TSA employee 'in a threatening fashion' and was tased.

Just kidding.

The TSA employee continued to ignore him and address the Mother of the Gremlin, so the Gremlin interjected again.

"Do you have-"

"Wow you take forever. Are you one of those people my daddy's always talking to?"

The TSA screener finally got the point and let him and the Mother of the Gremlin through. That didn't last for long, though, as they were approached by yet another TSA employee once they'd gone through the metal detectors.

"Excuse me ma'am, is this your bag? We need to take it for additional screening."

And they absconded for another 20 minutes with the bag before returning with the contents emptied out and separated. Except for one, which the TSA employee was holding.

"My rocket ship!" The Gremlin shrieked and ran over as soon as he saw it. He stopped short of the TSA employee (I just can't bring myself to call them 'security') and smiled at him.

"Isn't it beautiful?!" The Gremlin's question caused the TSA employee - a rather large, well-muscled man - to look somewhat sheepish.

"Um, yes, very much so," he responded before looking at the MOTG. "Is this ceramic?" It turns out, the molded, baked, and painted craft space shuttle the Gremlin did at the canyon with his grandmother was made out of the same materials that are used to make the Glock line of handguns, and it threw an alert while being sent through the x-ray machine.


Favorite Toy of the Week: Not the Legos in the Star Wars Clone Walker Battle Pack, but the paper insert that showed all the other Star Wars Legos so he can decide what he wants. (All of them)