Category: Airport Security
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VENICE: Testing Positive For Explosives
“There’s something I need to tell you,” I said to the husband whose big brown eyes had turned crazy, like crazy crazy, like those of a wild cat I once made the mistake of rescuing years ago from a neighbor’s backyard. I was just joking around, trying to make a…
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17 THINGS TO DO WHEN TRAPPED AT THE AIRPORT
In case you haven’t read a newspaper in the last few days, or seen the news, or spoken to a displaced friend or relative sleeping on a cot inside an airport terminal in a strange city next to an even stranger stranger, things are a mess. American Airlines cancelled 595…
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Computers, Shoes, Liquids & NIPPLE RINGS?
First computers and shoes, then liquids and gels, and now nipple rings – they must all be removed before walking through security. Even if the only way to remove them is with a pair of pliers. I’m not joking. Even I was surprised to learn that TSA really does keep…
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COSI
“Are you like the only person eating at this place?” asked my husband, sitting in front of the computer checking the stocks. “Why?” I laughed, leaning over his shoulder. “Did the price drop again?” And that’s when I saw that it had, indeed, dropped again. “Buy it anyway!” I demanded.…
Heather Poole 