Had some lunch with Mr. Grant Geissman and am now through for the day. I never did get to relax any, but from now until bedtime, relax I will, except for packing. Will I be allowed to bring cologne in my carry on? It's not aerosol, which I know they don't allow. Chapstick is, thankfully, fine. I printed out my boarding pass, so I don't even have to check in in the morning.
BK:No.
No liquids, and they mean it. Joe recently took a plane, and I printed out twenty pages of airline regulations about baggage beforehand. Liquids must all be in checked baggage.
Of course, some of the regulations--including this one--are patently absurd. Supposedly you are not allowed to lock your checked luggage! Well, no one ever tells you that, so nobody knows, and we went ahead and locked. Our neighbor who flies abroad a couple of times a year said she had never heard of this.
Of course, the liquid thing is just plain silly too. Supposedly the "plot" by the terrorists (who didn't even have passports) involved mixing three common household liquids in flight to produce a crystaline explosive. I read an article by a chemist explaining that one of the three liquids was extremely difficult to obtain in the correct strength, the liquids must be kept near freezing, the mixing process would only work if the quantities were precise and one of the liquids had to be slowly titrated--the process of crystalization would take four to five hours. Meanwhile, someone just
might wonder why they were in the rest room that long and kept asking for more ice buckets!
But at least having colognes and lipsticks confiscated will make travelers think something is being done to make them safe. And just maybe it will scare them into voting Republican in the mid-term elections.
Not to insult the Republicans on this site. But they are
real Republicans, not members of the cabal that has taken over their party.
Sorry about the rant.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled chat.
