What I thought of is this. People have gone to the airport with all these toiletries and left them there since they can't fly with them. So they fly, arrive and get to another airport...where people have left all these toiletries around. Sounds like a perfect swap shed opportunity. Maybe there should be a checkin counter at the airport where you drop off stuff, get a receipt and then at the destination airport you show the receipt for a mini Colgate Total Plus Whitening Gel and get one that someone else left. Maybe the airlines could work it into their checkin kiosks. Companies do such things for DVDs, why not for impossible-to-distinguish-from-highly-explosive toiletries?
Notes from Howard's Sabbatical from Working. The name comes from a 1998 lunch conversation. Someone asked if everything man knew was on the web. I answered "no" and off the top of my head said "Fidel Castro's favorite color". About every 6-12 months I've searched for this. It doesn't show up in the first 50 Google results (this blog is finally first for that search), AskJeeves says it's: red.
Thursday, August 10, 2006
Airport Feature Request
What I thought of is this. People have gone to the airport with all these toiletries and left them there since they can't fly with them. So they fly, arrive and get to another airport...where people have left all these toiletries around. Sounds like a perfect swap shed opportunity. Maybe there should be a checkin counter at the airport where you drop off stuff, get a receipt and then at the destination airport you show the receipt for a mini Colgate Total Plus Whitening Gel and get one that someone else left. Maybe the airlines could work it into their checkin kiosks. Companies do such things for DVDs, why not for impossible-to-distinguish-from-highly-explosive toiletries?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
I thought the same thing when they banned lighters/matches. To some extent it happened informally as smokers tend to be friendly in that mutually outcast kind of way.
Post a Comment