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The war on terror means little to a lot of people, but to the itinerant musician at an airport it means ever-increasing hassle, rough treatment and delay. In case you didn’t know, the Americans have just invented a new queue the traveller must stand in: in addition to being photographed and fingerprinted on the way into the US, you are now required to be photographed and fingerprinted on the way out of it as well. I won’t claim that this is the last straw, because there can be no last straw. We have to make part of our living in the US, therefore we must negotiate all the procedures it throws at us.
If you had said to me 20 years ago that the awfulness of being on a plane could be rivalled by the awfulness of getting to it, I wouldn’t have believed you, since by then there wasn’t much left for the airlines to take away from their economy passengers once aboard.
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