What do they want of us now?!
The Department of Homeland Security and the TSA have released an advisory ordering Americans to pack our carryons in an orderly manner, like some 1940’s housewife. We are supposed to fold our clothes and lay them in layers, as well as wind up all electronics and place them on the top of the pile. I don’t even think my dad, the most orderly person alive, has ever packed his bag like the model they showed as an example of how bags are to look this Thanksgiving week.
Perhaps this was the final straw for this influential woman: http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-11-19-townsend_N.htm ….I bet her bags explode like mine, and she’s proud of the fact that she has more important things to do than micro-manage the folding of her underwear, as she’s slightly behind schedule, in accordance to some ridiculous rules dictated by our government under the guise of personal safety while fishing around in the dark at 4:30 am at a Hyatt Regency on day 45 of her business trip.
Dumb. I’ll keep non-packing my bags, thanks anyway.
BB
November 24th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
It’s all so they can mess it up, and laugh as you stand in line, late for a plane, Trying to get things so they fit in the bag…. Then anythign that you have to leave they can sell on E-Bay.
It’s all a scam… Don’t fall for it.
‘Sir, you can’t get on this plane’
“why.”
“your just not organized enough! have you seen “Monk”? That is what we need out of your bag. Infact we are going to have a new flying uniform, and carry on. One pair of sweats, One white T-shirt, one black bag 24″x 16″, 2 books, one package hygene products:brush, mints, Tissue, feminin products or shaving depending on gender, and one money holding/identification package(preferably white envelope)”
November 28th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
No wonder I got patted down and had my bag flung opened and searched in Heathrow! They must have seen through the scanner that my bag was in disarray and that they wanted my bottle of Irish Cider! (stupid me packing it in my CARRY-ON) Ugh.
I like the comment from Eric, how funny would that be if we all had to wear a flying uniform. Good one.