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Well, it's my birthday today. Ordinarily it probably wouldn't be special, but this one is…because I am now all knowing!
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Mary's Rose
The Joke Known as Airport Security
It really struck a chord with me while reading Peter King's Monday Morning Quarterback yesterday. Being someone who travels a lot, he has an "Enjoyable/Aggravating Travel Note of the Week" in every MMQB article. And this week's comment really shows that the TSA's silly security rules are nothing more than a feel good moment when you travel:
I am all for rules, airline and otherwise, that protect our safety. But last Wednesday, after walking through a security line at LaGuardia, I saw the total fruitlessness of this you-can't-take-gels-or-liquids-on-airplanes rule, designed to protect us from those who would take explosive liquids or gels on planes. A fortyish man, traveling in business togs, put his briefcase, laptop and shoes on the security belt and walked through the X-ray machine. No beep. He collected his stuff, walked a few steps down the line, put his laptop back in his case, and then took a tube of toothpaste out of one pocket and a bottle of contact-lens solution out of another, then put both in his briefcase. That sort of defeats the purpose of the anti-liquid rule and pretty much makes a mockery of it all.
Toilet Paper Fix
I snapped this pick a couple of weeks ago in the bathroom here at work. The latch that holds the cover shut was broken so it constatly was flopping open. This made it difficult to get the paper out because it was always caught between the two pieces of the holder. But not with this brilliant fix of using toilet paper "rope" to hold it shut. This truly illustrates that Yankee Ingenuity is alive and well here in Western New York! ;)
Saranac Mountain Ale
