Small scissors to be allowed on airplanes

On my first look at this note I misread one word and instead of underwire, I saw underwear. All I could think of was what you would do if there was an accident. lol

Lucille

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Seems to me my grandmother insisted one's underwear be newly laundered in case of an accident, not newly wired lol

I had the same thing happen to me when I boarded a plane in Buffalo last September. I had a pair of blunt-end plastic school scissors (clearly listed on the TSA website as being allowed). The screener told me I couldn't take them on because they were a bit sharp. Huh???? If they weren't "a bit sharp" why would I even bother to bring them? However, they did allow me to bring on my knitting needles. Couldn't I have done a lot more damage with the knitting needles???? Obviously logic doesn't play a part in their decisions.

Robin

edna wrote:

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I remember clearly when I was about 12 or so, that mother and dad were in an accident. Actually, there was no other car involved, the passenger door sprung open (it faced the reverse way than they do now), and Mom went head over teakettle into a big pile of gravel, and a telephone pole. She had stitches to the head and was hospitalised for a couple of days. My poor dad was investigated , had they fought and he threw her out? That was clearly ridiculous, but the point of this post is that my mother said "Thank Goodness I had my nice new wool suit, and new underwear!!""

Gillian

One case I dealt with early in my career, a slip-and-fall, the poor girl hadn't done laundry recently and decided she'd rather wear no underwear than re-wear yesterday's underwear. So, on top of her physical injuries, she had the mortifying experience of having flashed the whole restaurant when her skirt slid up.

Needless to say, this cautionary tale was told to all my co-workers, proper young ladies who swore they'd rather wear dirty underwear than none at all.

Lol - I can just hear it! I can remember flying between London and Tokyo, three days at that point and my mother and I dressed with gloves and hats, high heels the lot. One dressed up for the flight, terribly uncomfortable. Nowadays I wear my most comfortable jeans and sneakers.

And you forgot to add, clean underwear with no holes.

But of course lol

GEEE Gillian , you opened a time capsule ,,,, i suddenly remember that older people used to say ,,,,"always wear clean and well mended underwear , in case `something` will happen to you !!" ,,, Gives us a clearpicture of how they thought about life . mirjam

Funny thing i found , in my last flights, they don`t allow scissors , but give METAL IKNIVES , with the lunch ,,,, :>:>: mirjam

Lucretia , i read this story and had to smile, i believe it but it borders on the bizzare or the Urban Legend ,, maybe the metal detector was so sensitive it dettected the metal in the bras ,,,, but being asked to take them off ??? sounds a bit far fetched and rather an interesting method ..... Of those guards to be safe ,,, but i suspect that it was not the wires that worried those guards ,,,, There have been cases of underwear and other clothing items that were soaked in some kind of `plastic` explosives .... mirjam

Here we go again ,,,,, Why Robin and Others do you have to be so cynical about the WONDERFUL people who really put their lives in danger by checking all the people to screen out the terrorists who want to harm ALL OF YOU, The creeners and security people should be thanked , it is a tedious boring work But NEEDED, for me for you for all .... this is the front line of democracy and life to go on as we like it to go on ..... Next time you go through check up Don`t forget to thank the person who does it FOR YOUR SAFETY , instead of telling all those cynical remarks .... mirjam

There is NO urban legend about this, it happened to my daughter and I read someone else here was detected with an underwire bra.

I am NOT in the habit of lying thank you!

And just why would new underwear have holes in it??? Huh?

Cheryl (running, ducking and hiding)

LUCILLE!

The one think I really and truly hate about getting older is the need to wear a bra most waking hours. And to think I once hated being flat chestted.

Cheryl

While I couldn't find anything on Snopes, I did ask a girlfriend that travels a lot for business and frequently out of the country (USA). She has had screeners (female) "investigate" her bra twice. She didn't think that it was outside the realm of possibility that some screener would ask a woman to remove her bra.

A bra has been used to smuggle th> Lucretia , i read this story and had to smile, i believe it but it

You smart ass young people