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Good Evening All-

"...IMO, lady was a dolt that either never thought, or believed the rules did not apply to her..."

Sully777, many high-quality touring motorcycles are equipped with heated handgrips. Coupled with a heated jacket/vest, pants, and socks, you can ride in complete comfort in very frigid weather. The heated garments run on electricity generated by the motorcycle.

Hopefully this will save you from further embarrassment.

Regards,

~ Blue Jays ~

"Sully777, many high-quality touring motorcycles are equipped with heated handgrips. Coupled with a heated jacket/vest, pants, and socks, you can ride in complete comfort in very frigid weather. The heated garments run on electricity generated by the motorcycle.

Hopefully this will save you from further embarrassment.

Regards,

~ Blue Jays ~"

And the rest.

Forgive me. Forgive me. Forgive me.

I was under the impression after 9-11 that everything would be viewed with heightened awareness and suspicion. After 9-11 new rules guided our lives in airports. After 9-11 we learned we could not trust everyday items such as box cutters, shoe bombs, jackets that plug into hogs, and other household items. I admit to ASSUMING everyone's foreknowledge of TSA crackdown and mental sobriety based on the results of 9-11. I mean when they stripsearched the senator because they found metal in his body, I thought everyone got the message that the TSA meant business and no one was above the law.

But you made me rethink my statement that the lady with the undeclared heater/radiator/jacket was a dolt. I mean, as I stand in line at the airport, I think to myself, "Make sure you follow common sense and all the rules on the TSA website, make sure you give them change and keys, take your shoes off well ahead of time and place them in the tray, turn off the cell and put it into the tray." But I don't usually think, Duh, forgot my heated jacket with the wires sticking out." Call me crazy, but I worry that the thing could be mistaken for a bomb. Now, you all say that I'm wrong.

My bad. Thanks for saving me from further embarrassment. Forgot the common sight of people riding high-quality touring bikes to the airport in the dead of winter but neglect to tell the TSA that the schematic-like inseam of wiring should never be mistaken for a bomb set-up. This is going to make me look even more dumb but I honestly was under the impression that a potential terrorist could reconfigure the wiring on the plane ala Mission Impossible. Freakin crazy, huh?

And while I'm exposing true ignorance, may I apologize for a post a couple days back about the guy that had razors and saws in his shoe. I called him an idiot as well. But, in light of my re-education, my statement seems tragically shallow and dumb. The man was a missionary! And as we all know missionaries, they ALWAYS have saws and razors sewn into their shoes to preach the gospel in a Ramboesque way. In the day to day worry of reciting Psalms, Ecclessiastes, Philemon, and Revelation missionaries must slash unfriendlies and heathen. Come to think of it, the stress of such chores must sometimes cause missionaries to forget to tell the good people at the TSA that they have deadly weapons in their shoes.

You're right: I assumed the closing down of airports was due to the foggy thinking of two half-wits when it was really my wit halved all along. Thank you all for setting me straight.