Monday 2 April 2007

'Litre'l Thinking

Thanks to the liquid bomb scare at Heathrow airport a few months back, my cabin baggage which has clocked up many frequent flier miles can no longer dream of seeing an overhead compartment ever again. So, I was shopping today for a rollercase that met the 36x24x36..sorry 56x45x25 (cm)..requirement. I was appalled to know that I had to either carry a portable microscope to read the dimensions printed on the luggage tag or carry a tape measure, and I had neither. However, the volume of the rollercase was printed on the tag with such large font that I could have read it from the cruising altitude of a 747, typically 32000 feet I think. My grandma with cataract could have also very clearly read 56 Litres, 43 Litres, etc printed on these roller-cases, again from the same cruising altitude. When I go shirt shopping, I am ever so careful to buy only the ones less than 100ml. Gee! I cant believe they forgot to provide a nozzle. How am I going to pour my clothes into the rollercase?
Don't these manufacturers know that liquids are not allowed on board any more? If they did, the outer shell would be in clear plastic to zip past airport security.

All Abode

P and I were waiting for a bus this past cold & windy Friday night. P was reading the following ad at the bus stop












Perhaps the idea of sitting in an air-conditioned car triggered P's thought process and she said "There should be no open bus stops. They all should be fully closed, and maybe even with heating. London is cold most of the year anyway. Maybe they haven't done it that way because it's too costly to make it fully closed given that there is a bus stop every 50 meters. Or maybe because homeless people will start living in them"
to which I commented, "Then, this ad will read My other home is a bus stop"