I’m out of town at my company’s head office for the beginning of the this week and I got to experience our wonderful airport security after a very long hiatus. I’m here to report that everything is as annoying and messed up as ever.
Apart from having to remove my laptop from it’s carrying case, remove my shoes and unload every little thing from my pockets, the wonderful folks of the TSA decided that they’d take an extra close look at the toiletries that I was carrying.
The end result? I know have no toothpaste, hair gel, hand lotion. Why? Because I had more than quarter of the tube. These were essentially brand new tubes/bottles.
I’m not necessarily mad that they took these things away, but the fact that after taking 10 steps into the Terminal E, I could freely walk into the duty free shop and buy gallons upon gallons of alcohol to do all sorts of nasty things. Who thinks up these stupid rules anyway??
Cheers
Believe me, I sympathize, especially since you’re stuck out in Tempe, but did nobody warn you that you can’t take that stuff in carryon any more? They’ve been doing it since they arrested those feckless guys in london when Bush needed a ratings boost. Hell, be happy they’ve started letting you bring stuff you buy in duty free onto the plane…they weren’t even allowing that for a while.
I’m out in Minneapolis, but I figured they wouldn’t care much about hand lotion. But the freaks do!
I guess I shouldn’t be complaining, the gentleman that came after me had pretty much EVERYTHING confiscated and was the given the choice of taking one thing, and he chose his contact lens holder. The solution was, of course, not allowed. What a PITA.