Oh yeah
One more little tidbit from my trip to DC:
When I went back to New Hampshire for a cousins wedding last year, they confiscated the finger nail clippers I used to keep on my keychain at the Manchester airport. I was more amused than annoyed at the time. After all, if you look real carefully on the signs they have up now, they actually do list nail clippers as prohibited objects.
So why is it, if they aren't allowed past security, there is a store in the A/B terminal (well beyond the security checkpoint) at Dulles International that sells them? I'm confused. If I can buy them at a shop next to my gate, why where they taken away before, and why are they on the prohibited list? I don't mind silly security so much (I mean, come on... finger nail clippers? "Take this plane to Cuba... or... I'll give you a manicure!!")... but at least enforce them equally across the board.
When I went back to New Hampshire for a cousins wedding last year, they confiscated the finger nail clippers I used to keep on my keychain at the Manchester airport. I was more amused than annoyed at the time. After all, if you look real carefully on the signs they have up now, they actually do list nail clippers as prohibited objects.
So why is it, if they aren't allowed past security, there is a store in the A/B terminal (well beyond the security checkpoint) at Dulles International that sells them? I'm confused. If I can buy them at a shop next to my gate, why where they taken away before, and why are they on the prohibited list? I don't mind silly security so much (I mean, come on... finger nail clippers? "Take this plane to Cuba... or... I'll give you a manicure!!")... but at least enforce them equally across the board.