My "liquids"...i.e. a lipstick, a small tube of coverup makeup and a teeny tiny bottle of eye drops had to be chemically analyzed in England. I cannot imagine what set off the terror-meter. Was it Mary Kay, Clinique or Bausch & Lomb? Coming back, the Spanish security officer asked if I had any liquids (woohoo, I understood him en espanol!) but when I showed him the plastic baggie he rolled his eyes, shrugged and tossed it aside. I've got to go with the Spanish on this one. I have a hard time believing an almost forty-year old haggard mother of two over-active bickering boys is going to explode a plane from Vitoria to Stansted with Clinique 238 Rose Spectrum.
What exactly is the balance between caution and idiocy? Better safe than sorry of course, but I've seen some pretty silly stuff since 2001.
Again, the blog of my trip is at
http://pacifistpatriot.blogspot.com/ if anyone wants to see how an incredibly stupid and spoiled American fares in England. We definitely could learn a lot from their energy-consciousness. Damn do we have ginormous carbon footprints.
Cheers!