Is it a lotion? Because it is rich like a cream.
The newest airport security regulations are having us reach into our carry-ons and pull out those essential toiletries, along with anything that can be defined as a liquid or a gel. It’s making everyone edgy and dry, with long lines of very dehydrated and smelly people trying to get through security check points in order to make their early morning flights. All the new restrictions are causing delays and missed connections and gingivitis, since we aren’t allowed enough time to get to our gates and even if we make it, we can’t take our toothpaste. I am one of those weird people who brush their teeth in the plane and in the terminal, so I really miss it. I can still floss, but it seems sordid and unseemly to do it without brushing. I can almost see the breath of other passengers, and it isn’t that cold.
Before leaving my hotel room this morning, getting ready for my long journey home, I carefully considered every one of my many full size and mostly new and expensive bottles of skin and hair care products. Is it a liquid? Is it a gel? Is it a lotion? Because it is really rich like a cream…
I left behind two lip glosses, one because it was too shiny and greasy to stay on my lips for any length of time, another because it caked in a strange way. Still, my bags were going to have to be checked, and chock full of items I don’t ever like to check because they are sure to be broken inside my luggage as it gets tossed like a salad in the cargo hold, and I was going to have to risk broken glass and line refining serum stains on my clothes if I was going to hang onto my beloved beauty supplies.
It’s all annoying and I am now stuck in between cities with hours to go until my flight home and I don’t feel any safer. I don’t buy any of this. It seems like yet another way to distract the world from the real problems in the Middle East and the errors of the Bush Administration. They fucked up, so now we are being force fed this theory that you can make a bomb out of sunblock and Cherry Coke.
I shuddered in horror when I read the guidelines on the tsa.gov site. They were taking away liquid eyeliner. This has gone too far.