Can’t Contain My Disdain For Luggage Rules
It’s hard to believe, but snow globes (even tiny ones) are a carry-on baggage no-no. I’m not kidding — an airline luggage inspector actually seized our miniscule Vegas memento. Why? It seems that bomb-makers can do something really, really scary with the fraction-of-an-ounce of water contained in an eight-dollar snow globe.
And that brings me to my latest haiku:
Seizing your snow globe
For being an airline threat
Doesn’t hold water.
(You can find more of my travel and vacation humor here, and more container haiku here.)
Technorati Tags: Snow Globes, Vacation Verse, Travel Mementos, Airport Rules, Luggage Regulations, Vacation Fun, Airline Humor, Gift Haiku
December 5th, 2007 at 2:37 am
life in outer space is really beginning to appeal to me………. the world has gone mad i tell you … mad mad mad…..
December 5th, 2007 at 3:37 am
Great haiku from your rightful annoyance.
Got some nice toys - lava lamp style - last time I was in Paris and had to mail them to myself so I did not have to check in my small carry on bag! Good thing I thought about it otherwise they would have been seized.
December 5th, 2007 at 9:48 am
Thanks for putting a perspective on a situation that needs one!
Mine’s up at http://slcpoems.blogspot.com
December 5th, 2007 at 10:40 am
Love your haiku. Last time I flew I checked everything. I figured if the luggage got lost no one would notice I had no make up on, I would be naked too. These travel rules are crazy.
December 5th, 2007 at 3:39 pm
so very, very clever! a perfect poetic expression of the height of ridiculousness!
December 7th, 2007 at 1:49 pm
found your site through the TravelHacker Carnival - nice post! As I was packing for our family trip last night, I had to talk with my kids about ok things and not ok things. Off the list, a moose that makes moose noises (really loud, actually) and a do-it-yourself sparkley lotion kit from a birthday party. I find it sad that these are the kind of conversations I have with my kids about traveling, rather than the wonderful expectations of what is on the other side!
December 8th, 2007 at 2:47 am
Thanks so much, everyone!