The Vancouver organizers had a nice security thing going. They'd figured out  a way to avoid the mandatory full-body, full-bag searches that always have resulted in long lines at Olympic venue entrances. Here, you got the bar code on your credential scanned whenever you entered a venue. The computerized system then randomly determined whether you needed a throurough search or could pass, unmolested, into the event.

 The first week or so, I was on a roll. I'd say nine of ten times I'd get to bypass the body search, the laptop extraction, the coat, coin and credential removal.

 Until I got to Whistler late one night.

 After a two-hour bus trip, and with a ten-minute walk ahead of me before I reached our condo, I decided I'd better use the rest room at the media center. I had not only my computer bag with me, but a fully loaded suitcase as well.  This time, my luck ran out. Even though it was 1 a.m., I was selected for a random search.

 Not wanting to endure all that at that hour, and in my condition, I told the female guard who'd scanned my credential, "You know what, I was just going to use the rest room. I don't think I'm going inside after all."

 BEEP! HONK! WHIRRRR!

 "Sorry, sir, you cannot leave. You MUST go through the scan now."

 "But I only wanted to use the rest room. And now I'm not even going inside."

 "Sorry, sir, those are our rules."

 Sometime later, but only after I'd had to open my suitcase and explain to them what a razor was, I got through, did a U-turn and left the building.

 Anyway, my maneuver must have red-flagged me in the system. I'm now hit with a "random" search nine out of ten times I enter a building.

 To make matters worse, I later learned there was a rest room on the bus.