ABSTRACT
Without having experienced it first hand, it is hard to imagine what it’s like to wait at a checkpoint. For well-off people from Western nations, the only thing like it is security at airports, especially since the September 11th attacks. Most of us have been through it: You arrive at the airport and wait in line to show your ID to get a boarding pass. Then you rush to another line, where you wait to go through security. They open your bags, shuffle through your belongings, ask you to take off your belt and shoes. When that’s over, you rush to the gate where, often, you are checked again.
