Originally Posted by qzwx
I am not sure if this is still the case, but several months ago most of the shops did not have scissors/box cutters. I remember boarding a flight and the guy next to me was trying to open the vacuum-sealed hard plastic container that the power adaptor was in with a Bic pen. He finally got it open several hours into the flight, hands bloodly and covered in ink!
Good luck....
Amazing what you can do with a key and the blunt nosed scissors from the UD medical kit.
That kept me and the purser amused for about 5 minutes.
I got the Kensington works-on-everything kit from Dixons. Didn't like the one offered on board quite so much. 2.75 presentations now done, another hour before sleep.