wandering stars

She didn’t seem very focused during the examination in terms of actually checking for threats; it felt, again, like a performance, for me and the other passengers (I was in public, which I make a point of doing during screenings because I want other passengers to be confronted with the ridiculousness of patdowns, and I would feel very uncomfortable getting one without witnesses). It was staged for the benefit of the people around me, not for anyone’s actual safety.