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[rm]

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/editorial/outlook/2660471 or what happens when you doodle the wrong four letter word on the side of your crossword puzzle on an airplane. Forget, writers beware, in the new world, we have to monitor not just everything around us, but ourselves, constantly.

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I was worried, too, but have flown and survived by dint of carrying nothing to read with me (in case anything I thought normal appeared questionable) and answered everyone, including stewardesses with monosyllabically polite answers. I did have a brush-up with one official who thought I was "bein' smart" by referring to her as "ma'am," but I quickly explained that I was raised in the military (well, I was) and everyone was ma'am or sir to me. She still made me basically strip before she let me go, but at least I was able to get on the plane.

I don't like feeling this way, either. This is not the country I grew up in.

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I always call people sir and ma'am when I'm intimidated, or trying extra hard to be polite.

It's stupid, but I'm worried because I ennunciate. I mean, even when I feel like I'm being utterly perfectly normal my speech patterns generally have people react to me as as if I'm a cross between teh bitchiest girl in high school and severus snape, and that' s not funny in an airport.