Carrying on with the carry-on
If your upcoming adventures include air travel, be advised: The rules for carry-on items have changed yet again.
In the continuing up and down saga of color threat levels the TSA says you can once again bring liquids and gels onto the plane in your carry-on baggage.
Thank goodness.
Don't know where I'd be without my shampoo and hair gel.
But they'll be no bringing these trusty little items from home, my weary traveler friends. No no.
You can bring 'em on board only if you buy them at "secure" stores in the airport.
I give up.
Most common sense people can tell you that the real threats to secure air travel lie somewhere 180 degrees in the other direction.
Yes, I realize that at one point, sadly, nobody thought box cutters were a security risk.
But there's bigger fish to fry in this security shell game. And I sure hope the TSA is getting to it behind the scenes. Because playing around with carry-on gels and liquids is merely the tip of the safety iceberg.
My recommendation: Take your aisle seat, buckle in, order a cocktail and don't think about it. It's the Alfred E. Newman approach: "What, me worry?"
Happy traveling!
P.S. For the first time in a long time, I am driving my car to my next hiking adventure. To New York's Adirondack Mountains later this week. I'll deal with the airline hassles on the next go-round.
Well, sure, all this gets eyes rollin'. But, then again, there's this thought from the idle forecasting department of the No Win and Second Guess Institute -- without getting into the hash of particular details and choices, or into the broader measurements of sense in anti-terror techniques/targets/tribulations: After British authorities made a fistful of arrests and said they found actionable evidence of a specific hijacking plan that included explosives in liquid form, IF immediate, distinct and deliberate procedures and notifications were NOT then put in place very rapidly and visibly in US air travel and security systems based on that news & that threat, or if only lite 'n limpy half-measures were adopted in narrow response, can you imagine -- I say can you IMAGINE? -- the wide howl of objection and criticism that would get wound up among citizens and representatives, loud and high enough to drown out any jet engine? ...the wave of complaint about an obvious, in-our-face, unmistakeably flagged risk and warning being ignored in a typically blind, confused bungle by law enforcers and numb feds? Can you? Look at me, Alfred!! Didn't you see the horrific cautionary tale laid out in the movie, "Milkshakes On A Plane"?
Posted by
bpabloSeptember 27, 2006 10:05 AM
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