As I mentioned in another thread over in IMHO, I’ll be going to Washington DC in two weeks (BTW- thank you to all of you that offered your advice! As a quick update: we have our hotel booked, I got a great rate at the Renaissance Marriott on 9th). Being the wise little squirrel that I am, I figured that it might be a good idea to take a looksie at the TSA website and figure out what the heck I can and can’t take with me.
Naturally, I simply cannot take my tube of MAC Lilacrush lip gloss. After all, if I - at any time during a flight - apply that pale pinkish purple shine to my lips. . . the terrorists will kill 400 orphans. With planes. And snakes. And crack will probably some how be involved.
I suppose I can understand the whole lipgloss thing- I mean, it’s sort of a liquid and liquids blow things up. Or so I’m told.
So wait: I can’t take my lipgloss, because that might kill orphan babies or puppies or something. But I can take my CORKSCREW? . . . Seriously?
Well, I for one would like to personally thank the Transportation Safety Administration for this both logical and practical measure. After all, here I was worrying about how I would get through my 4 hour, non smoking flight without a fresh bottle of wine, a cigar, and a manicure.
Oh wait, I can’t even bring wine with me. Son of a. . .
MAC Lilacrush lip gloss
That last one is terrifying! Can you imagine if that got on to a plane!? :eek: Thank goodness I have my corkscrew for protection.
Apparently you can bring solid forms of lipstick/lip balm, etc., or at least that’s what the big screen in the entryway in O’Hare said on their allowed items list. Meanwhile, you could do as much damage with a really sharp pencil as you could with a corkscrew - a nice puncture but not terribly large or deep.
You can’t bring a waiter-style corkscrew if it has a little knife for cutting foil on it, because they don’t like knives of any size, even ones that are flimsy and shorter than 1 inch long.
Yeah, I was aware at the solid lip product rule. That’s fine . . .but it just isn’t the same! I mean, how DARE they expect me to go four hours without applying makeup? Actually, it’s more like 6 with boarding times! I’M WRITING MY CONGRESSMAN!!! :mad:
I just find the contradiction funny. And, although I couldn’t do much more than a stab with a corkscrew, I imagine that the average wannabe-terrorist can do more with a corkscrew than a tube of shiny lip gloss.
Osama bin Laden: "Well, gentlemen, we were going to hijack the planes with the new corkscrew-lipgloss bomb I invented, but the US of A banned lip glosses. Let’s all just go kill ourselves now and get it over with. The US has won, gentlemen. The US has won. "
I’m also allowed to bring my knitting needles and my pointed-tip metal scissors with blades less than 4" long. Have they seensharp embroidery scissors? The ones I have with 1.5" long blades could easily put someone’s eye out – I’ve pricked myself painfully with the tips before! Sometimes I really do not understand the TSA.
