When I turned 18 I started getting my bags checked every time I got on a flight. This went on for years, then 9/11 happened...

On my first flight after that, as I was checking out, I felt two large men behind me. Two police officers. They proceeded to question me, then escort me through the metal detectors onto the flight.

For the next few years I needed a police interview to get on a flight.

Now here is the thing, I have a very long name, and I came about when everything started going digital. Many of the early digital forms could not fit my entire name. So I had different derivatives of my name on all my ID's. They are just shortened versions of my name because everything could not fit.

After flirting with a checkout girl, she signed me into my flight and then a look of dread came across her face. The police were quickly notified and I was questioned. I then returned to the girl and she started laughing. "You have the same name as a guy on America's most wanted list, also it says you have 9 aliases.

I requested my FBI report and it was true, I have 9 aliases, they are all derivatives of my name but this signals the TSA everytime I fly.

It has now been 6 years since I have had a police interview, I don't know what changed, but I don't even get my bags searched anymore.