Motherfucking Liquids on a Motherfucking Plane

[squeakywheel]

Leon's flying to Nashville tomorrow, and I emailed him yesterday to tell him that he might want to get to the airport earlier than planned, in light of this red alert business

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[dogofthefuture]

If he's checking the luggage, they might not break into it.

[neonleonb]

I've received a number of "This bag was inspected" pamphlets over the years. I know there's a chance that the bag won't be inspected, but the presence of liquids makes inspection more likely. And if they repack my bag wrong, the breakage could be dire.

[letmeburyem]

If you can get them big enough, I'd seal them in zip locks and then pack them in the paper/box. This way, even if they do break, the leak is contained.

I'm traveling next week, and I'm being told that my medication, which is in a syringe that has to be refrigerated, has to be checked. There's no way.

[squeakywheel]

That's bullshit. I thought medication was okay.

[jonthedull]

Wouldn't it be better just to have them marked as fragile and sent FedEx? That way you don't have to worry about the security "guards" panicing at the sight of syrup.

[squeakywheel]

That makes a lot of sense, but won't it be really expensive to ship that way? Not to mention, I'm not sure they have an address to ship to since they're in Nashville temporarily; I guess they could ship to the hotel...?

[jonthedull]

The second day is a bit cheaper than the next day, and the cost of saved the agrivation might just be worth it. You could send it through the postoffice. I think they have a way that you can send it to a postoffiice and pick it up there.

[squeakywheel]

Leon, you reading this? All you gotta do is stick some address labels on that box...

[etoilepb]

Pack the clothes and stuff in ziploc bags. Seriously. Squish the air out of 'em and zip 'em up. It'll both save space and protect them from oil-related security incidents.

[squeakywheel]

I think that's a really good idea. Someone else said to put the jars in plastic bags. We should probably do all of the above, especially if Leon is taking any of the fabulous clothes that I have picked out for him. It would be tragic to lose those!

[katbemused]

Yeah, I believe those space saver bags are supposed to be guaranteed to lock out moisture and such. The cost would definitely be worth it! It would totally suck if he got to Nashville with nothing but the clothes on his back.

[squeakywheel]

Well, I don't think he took the advice to use plastic bags but he made it there without his baggage being tampered with. One of the syrup bottles leaked, but this seems to be due to bad canning and not because anything broke.

[androgy8]

How did it go for him?

My mom and uncle both flew domestically in the past couple of days. They didn't have any problems -- though they didn't have any liquids either.

[squeakywheel]

I think everything went okay for him. He said that it looked as though his bag hadn't even been opened--it was just as he had packed it. One of the jars of syrup leaked inside the box he packed it in, but the leak was contained to the inside of the box and seemed to be due to poor canning and not to any sort of rough handling of his luggage. So that's good.

[pinska]

He responded, "NO LIQUIDS? Half my luggage was going to be syrup and olive oil."

this made me laugh out loud. until i realized you were serious. hopefully everything arrives in-tact and not messy!

[squeakywheel]

Heh, actually I thought it was funny at first too, until I read a bit further in his email and realized "Oh, yeah. He's taking all that shit with him."