new year, not safer in the skies

it's been 2.5 years since the foiled terror attack in london raised the united states' security level to ORANGE.

since then, it's been 3-1-1. 3 ounces, 1 quart-size plastic baggie (ziploc must be loving this), 1 bag per traveler.

couple this with the other post-9/11 restrictions and a traveler has to past through security knife-less, water-less, sharp-pointed scissors-less and shoe-less.

yesterday, while traveling through a major airport in the southwest, i passed through security with flying colors. i was deemed not a threat to my fellow travelers. (don't even get me started about innocent until proven guility implications).

they've thought of everything, right?

wrong! will someone explain to me why i had to eat a chicken breast with a plastic knife in an airport restaurant, BUT got to take my unfinished iced tea with me, on the plane, in a GLASS bottle?

GLASS bottle? Is that any less dangerous than my teeny swiss army knife? seriously.

it's just a matter of time. a matter of time.