PJ Vogt

And it happens...

So frequently.

Oh, my God.

I sort of thought like, oh, this is the thing that happens to everybody.

But then I would be telling the story or just like alluding to my experience in security.

And it was just I would be met with blank stares because this is, I guess, not a universal or even a common experience.

Do you remember the first time it happened?

So I looked through my old text messages and the first account that I gave to someone of this happening was in 2017.

It sort of like crept up on me for a while.

It would just sort of happen.

I wouldn't think about it.

I might text someone like, oh yeah, I got hung up in security.

Or like my mom was asking like, why were you late to meet me at the gate?

And I was like, oh, I got a special pat down.

And then only in the past couple of years did it dawn on me that like this happens to me all the time.

It happens often enough that by now, Travis knows what to expect.

On his otherwise breezy commute from Honolulu to Manhattan, he'll set off the scanner.

He'll get stopped.

And then it'll be time for the pat-down.

The agent, they'll offer a private screening.