Originally Posted by TierFlyer
I'd actually read her earlier post, but she's taken steps to solve her problem (filtered water bottle if I recall correctly) and isn't sitting around calling the TSA names and demanding a river of Aquafina flow down the aisle of the plane. (Though that would be cool.)
But I doubt she's a frequent flyer because that particular medical condition apparently makes sitting extremely uncomfortable, not to mention the need to be close to a bathroom at all times. (One of my neighbors has a similar situation and has, as older people will do, given me gory chapter and verse :-) Disclaimer: I am not a doctor and I have a sample size of one!
I stand by my point - the people doing the most b*tching about this are merely upset because it's inconvienent for *them*. Or, as in some of these threads, are constructing the most elaborate circumlocutions available on why this is a bad idea. Yesh.
Your point was that you were confident that no one here has a medical condition that mandated additional hydration. Well just on this thread two have posted otherwise.
As for Jennifer2456 using a water filter bottle (I am using my MIOX which will also kill viruses which the water filter bottles will not), that doesn't do any good when bottle has to go on empty. It would not be unusual that the first opportunity that she is provided to receive water is 50 minutes after she boards. And with turbulence, it would be even longer.
Let's not lose sight of the reason for this ban. Liquid explosives do not appear to be credible. And when a liquid is found, the TSO just takes it away and it is never tested. So we will never know if the TSA has now sent liquid explosives to the landfill. All the while I watch the two puffer machines sit idle at IAH every time I have been through. This is taking an axe when a scalpel is more appropriate. And the convenience is for the TSA; passengers' convenience be dam**d.