Secret Service

When I saw Obama speak at work, I waited in line for several hours with a friend. During this time, there were numerous secret service agents perusing the area looking really intense and ordering people around. At one point a guy in a suit approached and asked what the line we were in was for and I got nervous like he was gonna kick us out for some reason. We did accidentally/on purpose budge in line and it seemed he was on to us.

Thankfully he was not secret service but a newspaper reporter who was just getting the facts for his story. Still, this got my friend and I thinking. We had been ready to do whatever this guy told us to do just because he had a suit on and looked official. It is very possible that if we had showed up in suits and looked really serious, we could have also ordered people around. Maybe this could work at other events too! Like concerts or museums or really anywhere with security. If someone came up to a line full of people and said that they needed to all hold their arms up so they could see that nobody had weapons I am betting they would do it and look absolutely ridiculous without a second thought. They could be told they need to stand in a line that is exactly 3 wide or that all their cameras needed to be inspected or the inside of their shoes needed to be searched for bombs and then some could get confiscated. The possibilities are endless and exciting.