A Knowing Trim
The woman behind me struggles with her hand luggage as she wrestles it out of the overhead compartment. The easiest way to get it out would be for her to wait until passengers disembark so that she can stand upright and use both hands. That would be too easy though, wouldn’t it?
We start moving after watching her grunt a few times.
Familiar with the routine, I go through the usual routine of waiting in line, nodding when asked if I’ve filled in my customs forms and embarkation cards, having my fingerprints taken. I collect my luggage and proceed to the airline’s desk so that I can check them in to my final destination. This happens every time I travel to the US.
I walk through the automatic doors and confirm that my gate number has not yet been assigned. I decide to browse the shops a little to kill some time before I settle down to continue my book. Many US airports are similar – same shops, same brands, same aimless look on voyager’s faces as they traipse from one end of the airport to the other.
I saunter around the aisles of a shop that has a few gadgets and consequently promises to occupy a little more of my time than the clothes shop next to it. One gadget that instantly attracts my attention is this one:
For those pesky appendages
I assume that it is a nose and ear HAIR trimmer but you can never really tell.
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Imagine being patted down three times before getting on your flight, the first time its a given that T.S.A. has been briefed to look out for the religious in their robe with cord and several knots to be singled out as suspicious. This very thing happened to me recently in the Philadelphia airport. Thank God that Homeland Security is ratched it up a notch to prevent another 911!
Br. Anthony Sejda, O.F.M.
Did they have instructions with them?
I did not dare look closer, in case I would be asked if I wanted a demonstration.
It’s a good thing it works wet or dry because I think home plastic sugary will result in a lot of blood.
Indeed it would, especially when you want to preserve that perfectly mauled look.