biggs
May 21, 04, 10:30 am
This is from boortz.com
Unfortunately, this means the flower vending machines will have to be removed. :)
THAT UNITED AIRLINES COMMERCIAL
You've seen it. It's an animated United Airlines commercial showing a man leaving on a business trip. As he's putting on his tie he's glancing at a picture of his mother. On the way out of his home he cuts a rose from his garden. The commercial chronicles the saga of that rose ... resting in a glass of water on his United flight ... impressing gate agents and business associates from his briefcase ... right up until the time he arrives at his mother's house at the end of the day to present her with the rose.
Well ... as cute as the commercial is, it leaves something out. Security. Our intrepid businessman traveler has to get that rose through the gauntlet of the Transportation Security Agency. First of all we have the thorns. Those thorns could surely be used as weapons. If you can't get nail clippers on an airplane, how do you get a rose full of thorns? Then you have the x-ray machine. Just how good is that rose going to look after it's been for the wonderful TSA conveyor ride through that x-ray machine? Then you have the sniffers. Roses have odors, so the sniffers must come into play, and then there's the inevitable manhandling by a TSA agent.
Good luck to the rose.
Unfortunately, this means the flower vending machines will have to be removed. :)
THAT UNITED AIRLINES COMMERCIAL
You've seen it. It's an animated United Airlines commercial showing a man leaving on a business trip. As he's putting on his tie he's glancing at a picture of his mother. On the way out of his home he cuts a rose from his garden. The commercial chronicles the saga of that rose ... resting in a glass of water on his United flight ... impressing gate agents and business associates from his briefcase ... right up until the time he arrives at his mother's house at the end of the day to present her with the rose.
Well ... as cute as the commercial is, it leaves something out. Security. Our intrepid businessman traveler has to get that rose through the gauntlet of the Transportation Security Agency. First of all we have the thorns. Those thorns could surely be used as weapons. If you can't get nail clippers on an airplane, how do you get a rose full of thorns? Then you have the x-ray machine. Just how good is that rose going to look after it's been for the wonderful TSA conveyor ride through that x-ray machine? Then you have the sniffers. Roses have odors, so the sniffers must come into play, and then there's the inevitable manhandling by a TSA agent.
Good luck to the rose.