Security at the airport

Last night we took my mum to the airport to see her off on her trip to NZ. After she checked in, we proceeded to the security check point so we could go up to the departure gate to see her off.

Now if you've been to any airport in recent times, you'll know that when you go through security, you have to empty out all your pockets, take off any jewelery, & then go through the scanners, which beep at you if they don't like you.

We had Chloe with us, asleep in her pram. When we got to security they wanted us to take her out of the pram, fold it up & send it through the scanner separately. Now I have no problem with the security procedures, but taking a sleeping baby out of a pram is perhaps going too far. Isn't that what the walk thru scanners are for, prams also.

To make the situation worse, the supervising official was very cold & couldn't have cared less; Very unhelpful.

In the end, Jo didn't go through, she said her goodbyes downstairs, but a friendly helpful official would have been appreciated.