In article <5adr90F2mmq9fU1@mid.individual.net>,
"ant" wrote:
> Mister Bartlett wrote:
>
> > By the entrance to the security check was a huge pile of water
> > bottles - Americans never travel 5 yards without a bottle of water -
> > I suppose they think it stops them being fat
>
> chuckle. That's as good an explanation as I've heard! The buggers cart them
> everywhere. I just think they have an oral fixation. They have to be putting
> something in their mouths constantly. Chewing gum, food, large cups of soft
> drink, water bottles...
>
> > - and they are so dumb
> > that they haven't heard of restrictions on carrying liquids.
>
> I certainly observed many brawls at the airport security checkpoints as
> aggrieved Americans did battle with the guardians of their safety. I just
> waltzed through, as always. I'd read up on the rules.
Airplanes on long flights can really dehydrate you, they only give you a
tiny glass at long intervals, and the water for sale after the security
check is ridiculously high-priced for what is basically tap water. I
took a small bottle I'd been carrying while hiking, drank the tap water
in it while in that incredibly long line, waltzed through(eventually)
with my empty bottle, and filled it at a fountain on the other side.
It's not always about oral satisfaction; sometimes it's experience with
dehydration.
--
Mary, biblioholic
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