You know how right after you learn a new word it pops up in conversation? I just saw a white McLaren. My husbands sighed as it slunk by.

Swap it out for a Koran, though....

Waitaminit: Are you telling me that there really is a counterpart to Hobby Airport called “Professional Airport?!?”

As someone who has done both (not as a missionary, the bible was a textbook that term, we were treating it as historical literature of the Judaeo-Christian faiths) trust me, it was not the freaking books.

God forbid any college students try to travel with their textbooks! Or missionaries with huge fucking bibles!

“please take it out and put it in a separate bin” or a poster with a similar announcement ?”

The other airport is on the north side of town, more than 30 miles aways, fyi

When I lived in Houston I preferred Hobby. It was always so much easier to get in and out of. But then again I’m a young white woman so life is generally pretty easy for me when it comes to security screening.

And suddenly everything becomes clear.

Yeah, I was expecting a bunch of morning drunk, lululemon wearing sorority girls causing a kerfuffle. Not a bunch of alums at a national conference carrying GASP!!! BOOKS!!!! Meanwhile, didn’t the TSA just fail like 97% surprise tests of screening actual guns, knives and incendiary devices?

Travelers who were trying to depart Houston’s Hobby Airport...

And of course Delta Sigma Theta is primarily a black sorority.

Since I know next to nothing about sororities, the history of this one escaped me. Now I’m having an “Of course!” moment.

Really though ? A book ?

Yeah, from the headline I was expecting that the sisters had actually done something wrong, or at least strange.

Good job, TSA. Keeping the world safe from terrorist paper cuts.

Irrational TSA guidelines caused this delay.

Due to their size, the booklets could be mistaken for explosives.

Hmm, I wonder if the books would have been less suspicious if the sorority was founded by white girls...