Stop Making Sense

And now, in Auckland, I’ve had a tiny tube of superglue (purchased inside Singapore airport) confiscated. Colgate toothpaste (also purchased at Singapore airport) was no problem though, unlike at the Tokyo airport.

Also on this most recent flight, we received full sets of silverware (including knives) at mealtime. Hmmm, just a few years ago, we weren’t even allowed plastic knives, on the rationale that knives on planes are dangerous. I’ve had nail clippers confiscated on the same rationale. Now, knives are no problem it appears. Who knows what the current view on nail clippers is.

So now I’m allowed to brush my teeth and cut my food with a knife, but I won’t be able to fix the inevitable small cracks and breaks in my stuff.

Perhaps someone somewhere somehow can make sense of these seemingly arbitrary rules, but it’s beyond me.

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2 Responses to “Stop Making Sense”

ron silver
26 Jul 07 21:39
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Tony,

Perhaps you should rename your latest dispatch “Start Making Sense”….Still, I’m sitting in an office building in downtown Jacksonville, Florida reading your musings from Singapore, Tokyo (Narita?), and now Auckland as you w3end your way to Tonga. Really now, which of us should be kvetching? LOL!!
Gunther Deichmann
27 Jul 07 13:24
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Tony, I know it does not make any sense anymore, on one of my recent travels I ask the steward why we now have steel knives and forks, well he said believe it or not they are safer was his reply.
Security is very important if done correct, but some of these crazy tunes dont make any sense at all anymore.
Cheers Gunther