Posted on 08/10/2006 10:54:02 AM PDT by Hydroshock
That is a violation of TSA rules, and security personnel will find it during the body cavity search.
The problem is that you may spend more in gas than the cost of a plane ticket.
We stopped driving to New York for that reason.
It won't change, unless the government wants to be blamed for the death of the airline industry.
Businessmen simply won't travel without computers and cell phones.
In the meantime, I'm investing in Azure Wireless for the coming boom in wi-fi videoconferencing.
I sympathize with your opinion, but I fail to see how this would prevent liquid explosives from being smuggled onto an airplane.
Maybe flight prices will decline 50% and I'll be able to afford some tickets to Hawaii.
While waiting for my flight home at an airport last week, I watched TSA hassle at least ten very elderly men and women of obviously European descent, several in wheel chairs and with walkers, who were trying to get through the security checkpoints. It was really pathetic and even sad, and thoroughly humiliating for those folks, who were literally stumbling and falling through the metal detectors. Political correctness is going to be the end of this country...
"our over/self/mememe indulgence seems to surface most at these times....
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Ain't it the truth? I flew across the country the Christmas after 9/11. Actually, despite the extra security, it was kinda nice. The plane wasn't bursting at the seams with passengers.
I've always been an early arriver at airports. I check my luggage, go through security, then have a nice meal at the best restaurant I can find inside security.
Then, I get on my plane and fly to my destination, where I pick up my rental car and go enjoy my trip, whether it's business or pleasure.
I've adjusted to the new security screening stuff as it has changed. So far, in all my flights since 9/11, I've never had anything other than the normal screening. I don't have any metal on me when I pass through, and my checked luggage doesn't have anything that will bother anyone in it.
When I take my notebook PC, I have it out for inspection. I remember a short period where the regional airport I usually flew out of required you to turn on your notebook for them to see.
So far, travel hasn't gotten any more complicated than it ever was for me. And I'm a big old full-bearded man with long hair. I look like a well-dressed biker.
I suspect that most of the people stressing out over their own inconvenience don't fly anyhow.
You don't. You let the contacts shrivel up.
So now I guess I'm supposed to wear my glasses and check my contacts because I can't even bring re-wetting drops on board for when my contacts get a bit dry.
I flew in July and because of a mix-up on my ticket I had to get the full treatment. I didn't find it all that bad and it didn't seem to take that long.
"It also guarantees nightmarish waits at airports, since every business traveler who brushes their teeth or washes their hair will now need to check their bag.
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That's just silly. I travel all the time. I NEVER take shampoo, or even toothpaste. You can always get those things in the gift shop of your hotel, and the shampoo's right there in your room.
I quit taking liquids in my luggage, checked or carry-on, after a toothpaste tube got crushed by something and squirted the crap all over the stuff in my carry-on.
Of course, I'm a guy, and don't need twelve bottles of various lotions and unguents to stay beautiful.
It's just not that big a deal.
You will still be able to pack them in you checked baggage. It is now the rule in UK you have to do this to all electronics. Rules changed today.
My FRiend, that's what Zip-Loc bags are for.
I still think I would prefer going by air in the northeast. I drove from CT to the Newark area last year and it took house. Getting through NYC is so stressful.
I gave up driving from CT to northern VA several years ago. Were it not for the crawl thru NYC I would still consider it but that was too much for me. Even getting to the NY border on I-95 alway seems slow with either an accident every day, or constant road work.
That's why security doesn't hassle you. If you were an 80-year-old grandmother, you would have been strip searched.
That's ok ... the terrorists will just stick nitroglycerin and mercury fulminate up their butts in balloons before getting on the plane.
"So now I guess I'm supposed to wear my glasses and check my contacts because I can't even bring re-wetting drops on board for when my contacts get a bit dry.
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That's a good idea. That would be my call, if I wore contacts. A pretty simple solution, I'd say.
Well, I'm also a guy who travels all the time on business. Two trips in the next ten days. I generally don't have time to stop for contact solution & toothpaste (shampoo I can get at the hotel) every time I land.
Incidentally, I can't recall ever having a problem with stuff squirting all over my luggage.
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