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[usestangerines]

I'm doing my lunchtime reading. The NYTimes was kind enough to have someone write an article about how travelers at the airports are handling our new, hastily-added luggage restrictions. (Article hereA few things came to mind while reading it

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[cheesecantdial]

1.) Ok, J and I were discussing the things we would have to throw out if we were at the airport yesterday. I spend a lot of money to groom myself apparently. Hair prodcuts: Paul Mitchell shampoo and conditioner $30, John Frieda smoothing balm: $6, John Frieda hairspray: $6. Shower gel: Bath and Body Works Breathe soap-less body wash: $12. Lotion: Bath and Body Works Breathe lotion: $10. Deoderant: $2. Toothpaste: $2. Moisturizer: $8. Pefume: Gucci $75. I would be out like $150 to $200 if I had to throw away all my stuff...and depending on the perfume maybe more. A whole lot more if make-up is an issue.

2.) I can't read on a plane anyway and as long as it is an international flight they have tv and movies, so I'd be ok. Domestic flights are too short for me to get bored on. I'd be ok with this new policy.

3.) TOTALLY! Every plane I've been on in the past year have been populated by ridiculous people who are old enough to know better. Old women are my worst nightmare. Especially when they shit on the walls at my gym.

Unrelated: I love egg salad.

[usestangerines]

I found another quote:
At Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, a woman arrived for a Delta flight carrying a tube of lipstick. It was her favorite shade, she told an airline employee, and she could not bear to throw it away.

“She would not get on the plane,” said Lucia Grooms, a Delta employee.

So Ms. Grooms took the treasured lipstick and agreed to mail it. She stood in line at the airport post office with a silver tube of gloss, an address scrawled on a napkin and a few wadded dollar bills that she said the passenger had pressed into her hands.

Awesome. Lipstick. You cannot take lipstick or lip gloss??

And apparently other makeup is not allowed as well? That's what would get me. The make-up and perfume.

But now we know to pack it all in our checked luggage, so we're cool.

[cheesecantdial]

oh yeah, it's fine now, but at the time your luggage was already checked (or you never had any checked luggege) and you just had to throw your shit out. I knew about lipstick and lipgloss and I imagine anything with moisture in it would be a problem like foundation, concealer, anything in a tube, maybe anything in a compact. Basically, all make-up. I can see the reason why, but it's just going to mean a whole bunch of butt-ugly women on a plane.

[usestangerines]

Or maybe we'll all just become spontaneously comfortable in our un-made-up skins.

or not.

[cheesecantdial]

No ma'am. Give me mascara or give me death.

[usestangerines]

I wonder what they did with all of the bins of stuff yesterday. It looked like people weren't just throwing things in trash cans, which means, maybe, that if you work for the TSA then you're not going to have to buy shampoo or mouthwash for a very long time.

What would be funny is if you were in the line and you saw someone chucking their tubes of KY (or spray bottles of sensual warming liquid) into the bin. Do lubricated condoms count as "tubes containing moisture"...

[cheesecantdial]

Do lubricated condoms count as "tubes containing moisture"...
ahahahahahahaha....yes, they do.

I would love people to have to throw out vibrators, lube, pasties, and douche. i.would.love.that. Ugh, hilarious.

I would take stuff that was new or super cool like perfume, but used toothpaste and stuff would go stright to the garbage bin.