Due to my travelling for the job I've gone from New Zealand to LA to Houston, and more problems in New Zealand than I did in LA. But, coming back, I had to take off all the rings on my fingers and the metal detector was still going off from the underwire in my bra!! And in Hong Kong from the zippers on my boots! So, normally, if you smile and are nice to the people and co-operative you're okay. Another tip, don't carry any toys in carry on. I've had my carry on searched pretty much everytime I get on a plane. And when I left South Africa in 2002 to go to New Orleans via Washington all of my luggage was searched at the airport in the check in line, not behind a screen like in US!! So thankfully I'm quite good at hiding things in the pockets of my oversized duffel bags, so they didn't find anything too bad. However the guy who found a dildo went bright red!! It was really hilarious, I said to him, "a girl's gotta do...what a girl's gotta do"

LadyB