Fun Things To Take On Airplanes

[gwillen]

[This was composed on the bus, and posted from the wireless network in the Pittsburgh airport. Heaven help me if they're sniffing the network. :-)]

So I'm sitting here on the 10:00 28X with Em, Mike, Chris, and Brian, and the topic of conversation is: Fun Things To Take on Airplanes!

Suggestions:

Wear chainmail!

Wear a trenchcoat. When they ask you if you have metallic items, whip it open a-la Neo, to reveal -- fake Rolexes!

Knitting needles

Ninja stars

Metal beer steins

Highway signs

A metal walking stick -- with a sword in it!

Chainmail bikini!!

Katana

"Pull an Aragorn" (picture Aragorn unequipping himself entering the hall of Theoden...)

Comments

[betaphen.livejournal.com]

i've always sort of wanted to go through security with sunglasses, a large leather bag, and something innocuous to set off the detector.

i've also been pondering horrible things to say to security on the way through...it worries me slightly that if i'm not thinking i might blurt out something like, 'but i can't turn it on... it's a bomb' and then chuckle.

[saturniakitty.livejournal.com]

Or you can bring handcuffs. They made fun of me >_

[ritos-revenge.livejournal.com]

...and then asked for your number.

[saturniakitty.livejournal.com]

Fortunately they didn't >_

[cdinwood.livejournal.com]

They don't care about knitting needles. I've asked, and brought them on multiple times.

[moonndragn.livejournal.com]

Yup :)

[yannaboo.livejournal.com]

me too! though people on the plane sometimes look at ya kinda funnny

[roseandsigil.livejournal.com]

My God. You should have seen the thing Brewer wanted to bring through. It was a 10 inch long adjustable wrench that looked like a scary, huge pair of pliers. I convinced him to let me put it in my bag I was checking.

[sleepsong.livejournal.com]

Hypodermic needles are also fun...



See how big that needle is? Back right after Sept. 11 I had to actually carry a note from my neurologist saying that I wasn't a terrorist injecting people with SARS...