Gadling

It seems like everytime I fly now I get the "random search" and am "wanded". Last summer was no exception. While I was being wanded my purse was taken from the conveyor belt at security. I had 2 weeks worth of cash, a credit card, a camera, my mp3 player and more. I was traveling alone. Thankfully, my family hadn't left yet. I was able to be escorted outside of the security by a police office to go get money from them. Also, my flight was delayed 45 minutes so that helped or I would have been late and missed my flight. I was panicked about losing my belongings but after that my flight continued as normal. Later that night at my destination (Louisiana, flew into Houston) I received a phone call from the airline wanting to know if I had lost anything. I told them I had, described it and it had been found...in New York. (I flew into Houston TX remember). It was Fed Exed to me a few days later. To this day, I still don't know what happened or how it ended up in New York, but I was grateful to get it back! I will always be nervous about flying from that day on.