Blind_Io;n3554492 said:
I'm never changing planes in Germany ever again. Why the hell does someone who literally just got off one plane need to go through security AND some kind of psychological screening just to reboard the next one?
Go ask your own country the same question, it's even worse in the US because
everyone who doesn't arrive on a domestic flight has to go through security again. In the rest of the world, that's not always the case.
Blind_Io;n3554492 said:
Kiki was the first through the scanner. What does a green light mean? In Germany it doesn't mean go, the light turned green so she started to move, only to be shouted at. Fucker, in every other country the green light means go, not stop.
Pro tip: you only ever walk through the scanner after making eye contact with the person behind it. They tell you to step forward, not some light somewhere on the machine. Works everywhere, not just in Germany. As for being shouted at (or being considered an idiot), that's not a German particularity either.
Blind_Io;n3554492 said:
Then we had to have our sealed duty free stuff tested in some special machine.
Again, that is completely normal and much better than having it confiscated, which would be the alternative.
Blind_Io;n3554492 said:
Then we had to be fucking interviewed about our trip and where we live. Shit like "what is the tallest mountain in Utah" and "what is there to do in Salt Lake" along with being grilled about where we went and why we were there -- in another country.
...to change planes!
Welcome to my experience in Miami, coming from Bolivia and going home to Germany via Dallas. My CBP officer was surprised to learn that there's IKEA in Germany. :lol: Those questions are
designed to find out if you're nervous about something. If you get agitated, they have a reason to dig deeper.
Blind_Io;n3554492 said:
German airport security can eat a bushel of glutenous dicks.
Or maybe you should relax and realise that they're not doing any of this to annoy you.
Oh, and check if you had the dreaded letters "SSSS" on your boarding pass.