On our flight back from NYC, going through EWR, Pauline got pulled into secondary screening. In all of our flights, that was the first time that we got lucky (and she has a big S printed on her boarding pass to prove it)! We think the reason she was chosen was because:

  1. We were flying one-way,
  2. No checked luggage,
  3. Pauline didn’t register a frequent flyer #

In the end it was silly, the lady who did the screening wasn’t really into it (and I guess she didn’t think we were terrorists), so she just did a quick pat down and we were on our way.