okay, i dont fly much and when i do i tend to fly out of a larger city than the "Tom Ridge International Airport" we have here in erie, pa. it is THE definition of inefficiency. there's 4 gates. FOUR! yet always such a large delay while they check your shit. now i wasn't up to speed with the most current bag check protocols and most would say this was all my fault but listen up. i had a 3.2 oz container of LA Looks hair wax with more than likely 1oz already used. the girl at the initial checkpoint asked myself and my brother if we has any "liquids or gels" to which we said no. they stop me because i didn't have the "wax" in a plastic bag since it was over 3oz. at this point i said it was more than likely 2oz left and opened it for them to see. no dice. okay, so if it was a homemade explosive substance it would cause less damage being in a ziploc bag!? so i said "alright fuck you, throw it out then" which they refused to do. the garbage can was literally right next to us. so i left it on the table. then they stopped my brother because he had an aerosol deoderant. they tried to take that and he complained that the girl initially only asked if we had "liquids and gels" to which the aerosol is neither. so they took that as well as i asked for a supervisor to voice my complaints. one never came and they said "this has been in effect for over 5 months". okay so what if someone doesn't fly all the time, scour the internet and know all this? the only time they had ANYTHING about the ziploc bag rule is AFTER the security screening and all they had was........1 poster.
we get to Chicago and i found that my mom had left a 3 inch metal nail file in the suitcase i used for my carry on. yeah. good fucking security. :tu:
